Author: Frederick Douglass

Quotes

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

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

- Frederick Douglass

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

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

- Frederick Douglass

The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.

The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.

- Frederick Douglass

We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.

We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.

- Frederick Douglass

One and God make a majority.

One and God make a majority.

- Frederick Douglass

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

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

- Frederick Douglass

Without a struggle, there can be no progress.

Without a struggle, there can be no progress.

- Frederick Douglass

The soul that is within me no man can degrade.

The soul that is within me no man can degrade.

- Frederick Douglass

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.

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

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