Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSYou have to take power. No one gives it.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
-
-
Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS -
It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS -
Poverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS -
The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS -
What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS -
I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS -
A man is worked on by what he works on.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS -
Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS -
Right is of no sex, Truth is of no color, God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS -
You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS -
Our destiny is largely in our hands.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS -
Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS -
Our community belongs to us and whether it is mean or majestic, whether arrayed in glory or covered in shame, we cannot but share its character and destiny.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS -
The marriage institution cannot exist among slaves, and one sixth of the population of democratic America is denied it’s privileges by the law of the land.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS -
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