You have to take power. No one gives it.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSYou have to take power. No one gives it.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSFind 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 DOUGLASSTruth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSRight is of no sex, Truth is of no color, God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSSlaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSOpportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSKnowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSA 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 DOUGLASSA gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSHe who would be free must strike the first blow.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe 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 DOUGLASSA little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSEvery one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS