I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSTo suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
-
-
Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS -
A man is worked upon by what he works on. He may carve out his circumstances, but his circumstances will carve him out as well.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS -
I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS -
The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of earnest struggle.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS -
A smile or a tear has no nationality; joy and sorrow speak alike to all nations, and they, above all the confusion of tongues, proclaim the brotherhood of man.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS -
The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS -
Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS -
Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS -
You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS -
To make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken the moral and mental vision and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS -
The ballot is the only safety.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS -
Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS -
A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS -
The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS -
What upon Earth is the matter with the American people? Do they really covet the world’s ridicule as well as their own social and political ruin?
FREDERICK DOUGLASS