Author: Frederick Douglass

Quotes

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

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

One and God make a majority.

One and God make a majority.

- Frederick Douglass

If there is no struggle, there is no progress.

If there is no struggle, there is 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

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

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

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

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

- Frederick Douglass

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