Quotes by : Frederick Douglass

If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate....

These dear souls came not to Sabbath school because it was popular to do so, nor did I teach them because....

At this moment, I saw more clearly than ever the brutalizing effects of slavery upon the slave and slaveholder.....

We have all met a class of men, very remarkable for their activity, and who yet make but little headway....

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

Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are people who want crops without ploughing....

I assert most unhesitatingly, that the religion of the south is a mere covering for the most horrid crimes,....

Slavery proved as injurious to her as it did to me. When I went there, she was a pious, warm, and tender-hearted....

The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers. I could regard them in no other....

I have often wished myself a beast. I preferred the condition of the meanest reptile to my own. Any thing,....