3 December 2020 Frederick Douglass America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Frederick Douglass People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Frederick Douglass Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
3 December 2020 Frederick Douglass A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
3 December 2020 Frederick Douglass 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.
3 December 2020 Frederick Douglass I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
3 December 2020 Frederick Douglass When men sow the wind it is rational to expect that they will reap the whirlwind.
3 December 2020 Frederick Douglass Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
3 December 2020 Frederick Douglass At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
3 December 2020 Frederick Douglass We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
3 December 2020 Frederick Douglass The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
