black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.

Frederick Douglass

Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Constitution Document Glorious Liberty
I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

False Hazard Loyalty Myself Prefer
I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Answer Freedom Legs Prayer Receive
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Inspirational One Liner Progress Struggle
No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Fellow Finding Man Neck Philosophy
Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste. Here, appetite, not food, is the great desideratum.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Expenditure Food House Immense Please Taste Wealth
I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Finding Slave Want
The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Degrade Man One Liner Soul
The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Etermal Freedom Silver Wake
A woman should have every honorable motive to exertion which is enjoyed by man, to the full extent of her capacities and endowments.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Capacity Enjoyment Exertion Extend Honor Man Woman
Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Business Demand Market Politics Power
Education means emancipation. It means light and liberty. It means the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious light of truth, the light by which men can only be made free.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Education Freedom Glorious Liberty Man Truth Uplift
Fortune may crowd a man’s life with fortunate circumstances and happy opportunities, but they will, as we all know, avail him nothing unless he makes a wise and vigorous use of them.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Circumstance Coward Fortune Happy Life Opportunity Vigorous Wise
A man’s rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Box Man Rights
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

Claim Earn History Human Liberty Progress Show
Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Class Force Ignorance Justice Poverty Prevail Property Safe Society

It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Frederick Douglass Quotes