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Frederick Douglass [1817-1895] American

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Frederick Douglass was an African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. After escaping from slavery in Maryland, he became a national leader of the abolitionist movement in Massachusetts and New York, gaining note for his dazzling oratory and incisive antislavery writings.

Freedom, Men, Change, Work, Future, God, Great, Happiness, Learning, Nature, Parenting, Power, Religion, Society, Strength

Quote	Tags	Rank
It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.	Men, Parenting	101
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.	Change	102
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.	Society	103
Without a struggle, there can be no progress.	Change	104
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.	Nature	105
Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.	Freedom, Men	106
The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.	Happiness	107
I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted.		108
Find 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.		109
The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.		110
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.	Great	111
Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.		112
When men sow the wind it is rational to expect that they will reap the whirlwind.	Men	113
Fugitive slaves were rare then, and as a fugitive slave lecturer, I had the advantage of being the first one out.		114
To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.		115
The soul that is within me no man can degrade.	Strength	116
One and God make a majority.	God	117
I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.	Religion	118
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.		119
Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.	Power	120
A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.	Learning	121
At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.		122
I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.	Freedom	123
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.		124
People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.	Work	125
Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.	Work	126
What to the Slave is the 4th of July.		201
I could, as a free man, look across the bay toward the Eastern Shore where I was born a slave.		202
Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.	Freedom	203
The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.		204
A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.		205
A man's character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.		206
America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future.	Future	207
I recognize the Republican party as the sheet anchor of the colored man's political hopes and the ark of his safety.		208
Everybody has asked the question, and they learned to ask it early of the abolitionists, 'What shall we do with the Negro?' I have had but one answer from the beginning. Do nothing with us! Your doing with us has already played the mischief with us.		209
The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.		210
We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.		211

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