Quotes by Frederick Douglass

I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.

#Religion

Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are people who want crops...

#Action

One and God make a majority.

#God

The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.

#Happiness

In thinking of America, I sometimes find myself admiring her bright blue sky-her grand old...

#Drink

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.

#Power

I expose slavery in this country, because to expose it is to kill it. Slavery...

#Death

Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops...

#Freedom, #Mankind

A man's character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color...

#Frederick Douglass

A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is...

#Frederick Douglass

A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.

#Frederick Douglass

A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth...

#Frederick Douglass