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Frederick Douglass
February 14, 1817 - February 20, 1895
Nationality: American
Category: Author
Subcategory: American Author

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

   

I recognize the Republican party as the sheet anchor of the colored man's political hopes and the ark of his safety.

   

What to the Slave is the 4th of July.

   

I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted.

   

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.

   

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.

   

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.

   

The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.

   

Without a struggle, there can be no progress.

   

One and God make a majority.

   

No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.

   

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

   

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.

   

Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.

   

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

    Topics: Children

A man's character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.

   

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.

   

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

   

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.

   

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