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399 quotes from Frederick Douglass: 'Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.', 'It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.', and '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.'.
- Narrative of the Life
153 quotes from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass:...
- Narrative of the Life
- You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed. Frederick Douglass. Justice, Diversity, Depth.
- It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. Frederick Douglass. Inspirational, Motivational, Strength.
- 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.
- Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one's thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants. It is the right which they first of all strike down.
- It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. Frederick Douglass.
- If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Frederick Douglass.
- 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.
- I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs. Frederick Douglass.
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Nature does not make your existence depend upon me, or mine depend upon yours. I cannot walk upon your legs, or you upon mine. I cannot breathe for you, or you for me; I must breathe for myself, an...
The slave is a man, "the image of God," but "a little lower than the angels;" possessing a soul, eternal and indestructible; capable of endless happiness, or immeasurable woe; a creature of hopes a...
To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
Gentleman, I am a republican, a radical republican, a Black republican, a republican dyed in the wool, and for one I want the republican party to live as long as I do… It is the party of law and or...
The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.The great fact underlying the claim for universal suffrage is that every man is himself and belongs to himself, and represents his own individuality, not only in form and features, but in thought a...Our faith in him was often taxed and strained to the uttermost, but it never failed…we were at times stunned, grieved, and greatly bewildered; but our hearts believed while they ached and bled.If I have done anything for the colored people, it is in a great measure due to my having had the good-fortune, when I escaped from slavery, to become acquainted with William Lloyd Garrison, and wi...He told me much about himself in a very brief space, for he seemed to have more tongues than ears. I could not get a word in anywhere and you know I am too much in love with my own voice to like be...It is not true that the Republican party has not endeavored to protect the negro in his right to vote. The whole moral power of the party has been, from first to last, on the side of justice to the...Speech at the Abolitionist Reunion in Boston
1. Speech at the Abolitionist Reunion in Boston(22 September 1890). 1. A word about Hayti. We are not to judge her by the height which the Anglo-Saxon has reached. We are to judge by the depths from which she has come. We are to look at the relation she sustained to the outside world, and the outside world sustained to her. One hundred years ago every civilized nation was slave-holding. Yet these negroes, ignorant, downtrodden, had the manhood to arise and drive off their masters and assert t...
Speech at Tremont Temple
1. Speech at Tremont Temple(September 1890). 1. There is no race problem before the country, but only a political one, the question whether a Republican has any right to exist south of Mason and Dixon's line. 1. The good Lord had had a chance for a long time before the abolition. I believe that there is a moral government; and that God reigns. I am no pessimist; I give thanks to the good Lord, and also to the good men through whom He has worked. Prominent among them was Garrison, and scarcely...
"The Race Problem"
1. "The Race Problem"(21 October 1890) 1. That sturdy old Roman, Benjamin Butler, made the negro a contraband, Abraham Lincoln made him a freeman, and General Ulysses S. Grantmade him a citizen. 1. I have no doubt whatever of the future. I know there are times in the history of all reforms, when the future looks dark... I, for one, have gone through all this. I have had fifty years of it, and yet I have not lost either heart or hope... I have seen dark hours in my life, and I have seen the da...
- Education. “Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere” – Frederick Douglass, Life and Times of Frederick Douglass. “Knowledge unfits a child to be a slave”.
- Society. “Poverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US.” – Frederick Douglass, Letter to Mrs. Stowe, Rochester, March 8, 1853.
- Freedom. “Beat and cuff your slave, keep him hungry and spiritless, and he will follow the chain of his master like a dog. Feed and clothe him well, work him moderately, surround him with physical comfort and dreams of freedom intrude”.
- Civil War. “Civil war was not a mere strife for territory and dominion, but a contest of civilization against barbarism”. – Frederick Douglass, Life and Times of Frederick Douglass.
Read inspirational and powerful quotes by Frederick Douglass, a former slave and a prominent abolitionist, from his autobiography Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass. Learn about his views on slavery, religion, education, and freedom.
Browse 35 of the best book quotes from Frederick Douglass, the famous abolitionist and orator. Find his insights on slavery, freedom, education, religion, and more.
