The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe man who is right is a majority. He who has God and conscience on his side, has a majority against the universe.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
-
-
You have to take power. No one gives it.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS -
The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS -
I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS -
I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS -
If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS -
It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS -
Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS -
Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart; and he is relieved by them, only as an aching heart is relieved by its tears.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS -
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 -
A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS -
The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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 -
There is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own constitution.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS -
The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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