Frederick Douglass Quotes About Freedom

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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.

  • Without a struggle, there can be no progress.

  • Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both.

    "Life and Times of Frederick Douglass". The Illustrated Edition,
  • If there is no struggle, there is no progress.

    Speech, Canandaigua, N.Y., 4 Aug. 1857
  • 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.

    Speech at Civil Rights Mass Meeting,Washington, D.C., 22 Oct. 1883
  • I ask you...to adopt the principles proclaimed by yourselves, by your revolutionary fathers, and by the old bell in Independence Hall.

  • If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle.

    Frederick Douglass (2014). “Frederick Douglass on Slavery and the Civil War: Selections from His Writings”, p.42, Courier Corporation
  • Heaven's blessing must attend all, and freedom must soon be given to the pining millions under a ruthless bondage.

    Frederick Douglass (1855). “My Bondage and My Freedom ...”, p.360
  • People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.

  • Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.

  • Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one's thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants. It is the right which they first of all strike down.

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    Frederick Douglass (2013). “Selected Addresses of Frederick Douglass”, p.55, Simon and Schuster
  • The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.

    Frederick Douglass, Philip Sheldon Foner, Yuval Taylor (1999). “Frederick Douglass: Selected Speeches and Writings”, p.367, Chicago Review Press
  • Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.

    Speech, Canandaigua, N.Y., 4 Aug. 1857
  • Who would be free themselves must strike the blow. Better even to die free than to live slaves.

    Frederick Douglass, George L. Ruffin (2001). “Life and Times of Frederick Douglass: His Early Life as a Slave, His Escape from Bondage, and His Complete History to the Present Time”, p.415, Digital Scanning Inc
  • Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.

    Speech, Canandaigua, N.Y., 4 Aug. 1857
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Frederick Douglass

  • Born: d. February 20, 1895
  • Died: February 20, 1895
  • Occupation: Orator