Quotes by Frederick Douglass

I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule...

#Frederick Douglass

I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the...

#Frederick Douglass

I could, as a free man, look across the bay toward the Eastern Shore where...

#Frederick Douglass

I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend...

#Frederick Douglass

Fugitive slaves were rare then, and as a fugitive slave lecturer, I had the advantage...

#Frederick Douglass

Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact...

#Frederick Douglass

At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.

#Frederick Douglass

America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to...

#Frederick Douglass

Without a struggle, there can be no progress.

#Frederick Douglass

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one...

#Frederick Douglass

When men sow the wind it is rational to expect that they will reap the...

#Frederick Douglass

What to the Slave is the 4th of July.

#Frederick Douglass