Frederick Douglass

"Human rights stand upon a common basis; and by all reason that they are supported, maintained, and defended for all the human family. The essential characteristics of humanity are everywhere the same."

- Frederick Douglass

"Without this dream, there would be no progress."

- Frederick Douglass

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

- Frederick Douglass

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

- Frederick Douglass

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

- Frederick Douglass

"One and God make a majority."

- Frederick Douglass

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

- Frederick Douglass

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

- Frederick Douglass

"If nothing is expected of a people, that people will find it difficult to contradict that expectation."

- Frederick Douglass

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

- Frederick Douglass

"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."

- Frederick Douglass

"If there is no struggle, there is no progress"

- Frederick Douglass

"I have found that, to make a contented slave, it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken his moral and mental vision, and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason. He must be able to detect no inconsistencies in slavery; he must be made to feel that slavery is right; and he can be brought to that only when he ceased to be a man."

- Frederick Douglass

""If there is no struggle, there is no progress.""

- Frederick Douglass

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

- Frederick Douglass

"I admit that the slave does sometimes sing, dance and appear to be merry. But what does this prove? It only proves to my mind, that though slavery is armed with a thousand stings, it is not able entirely to kill the elastic spirit of the bondman."

- Frederick Douglass

"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."

- Frederick Douglass

"Without a struggle, there can be no progress."

- Frederick Douglass

"The soul that is within me no man can degrade."

- Frederick Douglass

"It’s easier to build strong children than to repair broken men."

- Frederick Douglass

"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

""It's easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.""

- Frederick Douglass

"Once you learn to read, you will be forever free."

- Frederick Douglass

""Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.""

- Frederick Douglass

"Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave."

- Frederick Douglass

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

- Frederick Douglass

"Knowledge is the pathway from slavery to freedom."

- Frederick Douglass