Quotes by Douglass, Frederick

"A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me."

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"One and God make a majority."

Douglass, Frederick on god   

"Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is in an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe."

Douglass, Frederick on oppression
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"We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future."

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"Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done."

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"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, and it may be both moral and physical, but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. "

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"I recognize the Republican party as the sheet anchor of the colored mans political hopes and the ark of his safety. "

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"I knew that however bad the Republican party was, the Democratic party was much worse. The elements of which the Republican party was composed gave better ground for the ultimate hope of the success of the colored mans cause than those of the Democratic party. "

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"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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"For it is not light that is needed, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake. The feeling of the nation must be quickened; the conscience of the nation must be roused; the propriety of the nation must be startled; the hypocrisy of the nation must be exposed; and its crimes against God and man must be proclaimed and denounced. "

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

Douglass, Frederick on progress