Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass/Quotes

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

If there is no struggle, there is no progress.

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

What to the Slave is the 4th of July.

Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.

Without a struggle, there can be no progress.

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

The soul that is within me no man can degrade.

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

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