Quotes by Frederick Douglass

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)

America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future. (Frederick Douglass)

At a time like this, scorching iron, not convincing argument, is needed. (Frederick Douglass)

Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress. (Frederick Douglass)

I didnt know I was a slave until I found out I couldnt do the things I wanted. (Frederick Douglass)

I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs. (Frederick Douglass)

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)

I recognize the Republican party as the sheet anchor of the colored mans political hopes and the ark of his safety. (Frederick Douglass)

If there is no struggle, there is no progress. (Frederick Douglass)

If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. (Frederick Douglass)