America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future. -Frederick Douglass Future
Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. -Frederick Douglass Freedom
When men sow the wind it is rational to expect that they will reap the whirlwind. -Frederick Douglass Men
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
We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future. -Frederick Douglass Future
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
Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. -Frederick Douglass Men
A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people. -Frederick Douglass Learning
Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. -Frederick Douglass Men
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 Society
I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs. -Frederick Douglass Religion
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
The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery. -Frederick Douglass Happiness
People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get. -Frederick Douglass Work
