Quotes by Frederick Douglass

We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to...

#Frederick Douglass

To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer...

#Free Speech

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

#Injustice, #Oppression

The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.

#Limits

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

#Happiness, #Misery

It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower,...

#Needs

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

#Prayer

If there is no struggle, there is no progress.

#Progress, #Struggle

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

#Politicians

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

#Slavery

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

#Society

People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly...

#Work