Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. Frederick Douglass Read Quote
America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future. Frederick Douglass Read Quote
Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe. Frederick Douglass Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs. Frederick Douglass Read Quote
Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Frederick Douglass Read Quote
Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them. Frederick Douglass Read Quote
The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress. Frederick Douglass Read Quote
The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous. Frederick Douglass Read Quote
