Frederick Douglass Quotes About Literature

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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.

  • A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.

  • America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future.

    America  
    What to the Slave is the 4th of July?, delivered 4 July 1852
  • I could, as a free man, look across the bay toward the Eastern Shore where I was born a slave.

  • To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.

    Rights  
    Frederick Douglass (2013). “Selected Addresses of Frederick Douglass”, p.56, Simon and Schuster
  • When men sow the wind it is rational to expect that they will reap the whirlwind.

    Frederick Douglass (1999). “Frederick Douglass: Selected Speeches and Writings”, Chicago Review Press
  • A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.

  • Slaves were expected to sing as well as to work. A silent slave was not liked, either by masters or overseers.

    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.61, Digital Scanning Inc
  • 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
  • A man's character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.

    Frederick Douglass (2012). “The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass”, p.25, Courier Corporation
  • I recognize the Republican Party as the sheet anchor of the colored man's political hopes and the ark of his safety.

    Frederick Douglass' letter to men from Petersburg, Virginia (in the Frederick Douglass Papers at the Library of Congress), August 15, 1888.
  • Power concedes nothing without demand. It never has and never will. Show me the exact amount of wrong and injustices that are visited upon a person and I will show you the exact amount of words endured by these people.

  • People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.

  • Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.

    Frederick Douglass (2013). “The Complete Autobiographies of Frederick Douglass”, p.128, Simon and Schuster
  • The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.

    1849 'The Destiny of Colored Americans' in The North Star, 16 Nov.
  • 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
  • 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.

    Speech, Rochester, N.Y., 5 July 1852
  • 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
  • I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.

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Frederick Douglass

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