Frederick Douglass Quotes

Frederick Douglass Quotes.

A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, bu

A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
Frederick Douglass
Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
Frederick Douglass
The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
Frederick Douglass
Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
Frederick Douglass
The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
Frederick Douglass
A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
Frederick Douglass
Everybody has asked the question, and they learned to a

Everybody has asked the question, and they learned to ask it early of the abolitionists, ‘What shall we do with the Negro?’ I have had but one answer from the beginning. Do nothing with us! Your doing with us has already played the mischief with us.
Frederick Douglass
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.
Frederick Douglass
At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
Frederick Douglass
Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
Frederick Douglass
That which is inhuman cannot be divine.
Frederick Douglass
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
I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican

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
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.
Frederick Douglass