Frederick Douglass Quotes & Sayings

“If there is no struggle, there is no progress.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“Without a struggle, there can be no progress.”

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

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

“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 soul that is within me no man can degrade.”

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