Frederick Douglass Quotes.
I could, as a free man, look across the bay toward the Eastern Shore where I was born a slave.
The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.
We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
When men sow the wind it is rational to expect that they will reap the whirlwind.
The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
There is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own constitution
The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
I recognize the Republican party as the sheet anchor of the colored man’s political hopes and the ark of his safety.
You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants. It is the right which they first of all strike down.
Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate 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.
Education means emancipation. It means light and liberty. It means the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious light of truth, the light by which men can only be made free.
