All Frederick Douglass Quotes
I could, as a free man, look across the bay toward the Eastern Shore where I was born a slave.
Frederick Douglass
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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
Frederick Douglass
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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
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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
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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
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We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
Frederick Douglass
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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
Frederick Douglass
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A man's character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
Frederick Douglass
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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
Frederick Douglass
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I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
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A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
Frederick Douglass
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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
Frederick Douglass
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