Frederick Douglass Quotes About Literature

Quotes about: Literature

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

  Frederick Douglass

  Life, Freedom, Work

• 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

  Freedom, Party, Black

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

  Frederick Douglass

  Religious, Atheist, Prayer

• To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.

  Frederick Douglass

  Patriotic, Rights, Freedom Of Speech

  Frederick Douglass (2013). “Selected Addresses of Frederick Douglass”, p.56, Simon and Schuster

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

  Frederick Douglass

  Freedom, Patriotic, Men

  Speech, Canandaigua, N.Y., 4 Aug. 1857

• 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

  Fire, Light, Earthquakes

  Speech, Rochester, N.Y., 5 July 1852

• 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.

  Frederick Douglass

  Freedom, 4th Of July, Patriotic

  Speech at Civil Rights Mass Meeting,Washington, D.C., 22 Oct. 1883

• The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.

  Frederick Douglass

  Freedom, Democracies Have, Tyrants

  Frederick Douglass, Philip Sheldon Foner, Yuval Taylor (1999). “Frederick Douglass: Selected Speeches and Writings”, p.367, Chicago Review Press

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

  Frederick Douglass

  Education, Learning, People

• America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future.

  Frederick Douglass

  Past, America, Literature

  What to the Slave is the 4th of July?, delivered 4 July 1852

• A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.

  Frederick Douglass

  Motivational, Men, Gentleman

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

  Frederick Douglass

  Men, White Man, Misery And Pain

  1849 'The Destiny of Colored Americans' in The North Star, 16 Nov.

• I recognize the Republican Party as the sheet anchor of the colored man's political hopes and the ark of his safety.

  Frederick Douglass

  Party, Men, Anchors

  Frederick Douglass' letter to men from Petersburg, Virginia (in the Frederick Douglass Papers at the Library of Congress), August 15, 1888.

• When men sow the wind it is rational to expect that they will reap the whirlwind.

  Frederick Douglass

  Men, Wind, Literature

  Frederick Douglass (1999). “Frederick Douglass: Selected Speeches and Writings”, Chicago Review Press

• A man's character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.

  Frederick Douglass

  Character, Men, Color

  Frederick Douglass (2012). “The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass”, p.25, Courier Corporation

• Slaves were expected to sing as well as to work. A silent slave was not liked, either by masters or overseers.

  Frederick Douglass

  Literature, Slave, Silent

  Frederick Douglass, George L. Ruffin (2001). “Life and Times of Frederick Douglass: His Early Life as a Slave, His Escape from Bondage, and His Complete History to the Present Time”, p.61, Digital Scanning Inc

• Power concedes nothing without demand. It never has and never will. Show me the exact amount of wrong and injustices that are visited upon a person and I will show you the exact amount of words endured by these people.

  Frederick Douglass

  People, Literature, Demand

• Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.

  Frederick Douglass

  Literature, Slavery, Politics

  Frederick Douglass (2013). “The Complete Autobiographies of Frederick Douglass”, p.128, Simon and Schuster

• I could, as a free man, look across the bay toward the Eastern Shore where I was born a slave.

  Frederick Douglass

  Patriotic, Men, Looks

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