Frederick Douglass

The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery…

A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth…

I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend…

Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work…

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

Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops…

If there is no struggle, there is no progress…

It is not light that we need, but fire it is not the gentle shower…

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

At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed…

America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to…

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

A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is…

One and God make a majority…

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