Frederick Douglass Quotes

Frederick Douglass (February 1818 to February 20, 1895).He was an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman.

Frederick Douglass was the son of an enslaved woman and an unknown white father.

Douglass published two autobiographies in his life.

Douglass Was the First African American Nominated for Vice President of the United States.

February 1, 2016 Google is Celebrating African-American Social Reformer Frederick Douglass.

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Frederick Douglass Quotes

If there is no struggle, there is no progress.

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

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

Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.

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

I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.

Without a struggle, there can be no progress.

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

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.

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.

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