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Frederick Douglass Quotes
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February 14, 1818 - February 20, 1895
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.
Frederick Douglass
Justice
Ignorance
Society
Safe
Any
Class
Conspiracy
Degrade
Denied
Enforced
Feel
Made
Neither
Nor
Oppress
Organized
Persons
Poverty
Prevails
Property
Rob
Them
Where
Will
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.
Frederick Douglass
Nature
Light
Fire
Storm
Earthquake
Gentle
Need
Shower
Thunder
Whirlwind
People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
Frederick Douglass
Work
World
People
Must
Certainly
Get
Might
The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
Frederick Douglass
Life
Nation
Only
Truthful
Secure
Honest
Virtuous
While
One and God make a majority.
Frederick Douglass
God
Make
Majority
It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
Frederick Douglass
Parenting
Men
Children
Broken
Build
Easier
Repair
Strong
Than
The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.
Frederick Douglass
Limits
Endurance
Tyrants
Those
Whom
Oppress
Prescribed
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
Frederick Douglass
Change
Struggle
Progress
To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
Frederick Douglass
Free
Wrong
Well
Speech
Double
Free Speech
Rights
Speaker
Suppress
Those
Violates
I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
Frederick Douglass
Religion
Legs
Answer
Until
Years
Prayed
Received
Twenty
Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
Frederick Douglass
Man
Greatness
Done
Things
Ability
Application
Consists
His
Needed
Powers
Proper
The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
Frederick Douglass
Strength
Me
Man
Soul
Degrade
Within
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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
Myself
True
My Own
Others
Abhorrence
Be True
Even
False
Hazard
Own
Prefer
Rather
Ridicule
Than
When men sow the wind it is rational to expect that they will reap the whirlwind.
Frederick Douglass
Men
Wind
Will
Reap
Expect
Rational
Sow
Whirlwind
Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
Frederick Douglass
Power
Never
Will
Nothing
Without
Demand
Did
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.
Frederick Douglass
You
People
Will
Injustice
Any
Exact
Find
Imposed
Just
Measure
Out
Quietly
Submit
Them
Which
Wrong
Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
Frederick Douglass
Freedom
Men
Who
Want
Agitation
Crops
Depreciate
Favor
Ground
Plowing
Profess
Those
Up
Without
A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
Frederick Douglass
Learning
People
Dangerous
Calamity
Any
Dangerous Thing
Indeed
Little
May
Thing
Want
The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
Frederick Douglass
Rebellion
Worse
Than
Thing
Causes
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.
Frederick Douglass
Great
Growth
Reflection
Battle
Appreciate
Appreciated
Easily
Great Nation
Lost
Moral
Nation
Observation
Requires
Understood
Well
Won
A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
Frederick Douglass
Me
Man
Gentleman
Will
Insult
A man's character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
Frederick Douglass
Man
Character
Always
More
About
Color
Form
Him
Hue
Less
More Or Less
Takes
Things
America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future.
Frederick Douglass
Future
Past
America
Present
Binds
False
Herself
At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
Frederick Douglass
Time
Like
Argument
Irony
Convincing
Needed
Scorching
Fugitive slaves were rare then, and as a fugitive slave lecturer, I had the advantage of being the first one out.
Frederick Douglass
Being
First
Rare
Slave
Advantage
First One
Fugitive
Had
Lecturer
Out
Slaves
Then
Were
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.
Frederick Douglass
Freedom
I Am
Black
Never
Am
Any
Belong
Dyed
Intend
Other
Party
Progress
Republican
Wool
Than
I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted.
Frederick Douglass
Know
Things
Slave
Out
Until
Found
Wanted
I recognize the Republican party as the sheet anchor of the colored man's political hopes and the ark of his safety.
Frederick Douglass
Man
Political
Safety
Anchor
Ark
Colored
His
Hopes
Party
Recognize
Republican
Republican Party
Sheet
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.
Frederick Douglass
Man
End
Own
Without
About
Ankle
Chain
Fastened
Fellow
Fellow Man
Finding
His
Last
Neck
Other
Put
Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
Frederick Douglass
Work
Well
Sing
Slaves
Expected
Generally
The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.
Frederick Douglass
Happiness
Man
Black
White
Cannot
Misery
Purchased
What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
Frederick Douglass
Slave
July
We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
Frederick Douglass
Future
Past
Only
Present
Make
Useful
I could, as a free man, look across the bay toward the Eastern Shore where I was born a slave.
Frederick Douglass
Man
Look
Free
Born
Across
Bay
Could
Eastern
Free Man
Shore
Slave
Toward
Where
I Was Born
Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
Frederick Douglass
Freedom
Men
Who
Want
Agitation
Crops
Favor
Ground
Plowing
Profess
Those
Up
Without
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.
Frederick Douglass
Beginning
Your
Nothing
Doing
Answer
Ask
Asked
Early
Everybody
Had
Learned
Mischief
Played
Question
Shall
Us
There is not a man beneath the canopy of Heaven who does not know that slavery is wrong for him.
Frederick Douglass
Man
Who
Heaven
Know
Beneath
Does
Him
Slavery
Wrong
That which is inhuman cannot be divine.
Frederick Douglass
Cannot
Divine
Which
Inhuman
Experience demonstrates that there may be a wages of slavery only a little less galling and crushing in its effects than chattel slavery, and that this slavery of wages must go down with the other.
Frederick Douglass
Experience
May
Go
Slavery
Crushing
Down
Effects
Less
Little
Must
Only
Other
Wages
Than
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