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 DOUGLASSI know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
-
-
The man who is right is a majority. He who has God and conscience on his side, has a majority against the universe.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS -
Some know the value of education by having it. I knew its value by not having it.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS -
You have to take power. No one gives it.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS -
I do not think much of the good luck theory of self-made men. It is worth but little attention and has no practical value.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS -
What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS -
The ballot is the only safety.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS -
The District of Columbia is the one spot where there is no government for the people, of the people and by the people.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS -
A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
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 -
I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS -
Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS -
A great man, tender of heart, strong of nerve, boundless patience and broadest sympathy, with no motive apart from his country.
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 -
The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS -
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