Author: Frederick Douglass

Quotes

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

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

- 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

One and God make a majority.

One and God make a majority.

- 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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

- 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

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