Frederick Douglass Quotes

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. - Frederick Douglass

I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted. - Frederick Douglass

I could, as a free man, look across the bay toward the Eastern Shore where I was born a slave. - Frederick Douglass

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. - Frederick Douglass

Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress. - Frederick Douglass

Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. . . . The resistance encountered now predicates hope. . . . Only as we rise . . . do we encounter opposition. - Frederick Douglass

A man's character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him. - Frederick Douglass

A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people. - Frederick Douglass

A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me. - Frederick Douglass

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