Frederick Douglass quotes

“Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work”

“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”

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

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“We had talked long enough; we were now ready to move; if not now, we never should be; and if we did not intend to move now, we had as well fold our arms, sit down, and acknowledge ourselves fit only to be slaves.”

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

“Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.”

“I expose slavery in this country, because to expose it is to kill it. Slavery is one of those monsters of darkness to whom the light of truth is death”

“The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.”

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“When men sow the wind it is rational to expect that they will reap the whirlwind.”