Frederick Douglass

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

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

“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.”

“We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.”

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

“The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.”

“If there is no struggle, there is no progress.”

“One and God make a majority.”

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

“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.”

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

“Experience demonstrates that there may be a wages of slavery only a little less galling and crushing in its effects than chattel slavery, and that this slavery of wages must go down with the other.”

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