Quotes by : Frederick Douglass

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.

If there is no struggle, there is no progress.

I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.

You are loosed from your moorings, and are free; I am fast in my chains, and M a slave! You move merrily....

The louder she screamed, the harder he whipped; and where the blood ran fastest, there he whipped longest.....

What I have said respecting and against religion, I mean strictly to apply to the slaveholding religion....

Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or....

Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart;....

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

At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.