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Frederick Douglass Quotes

Best Quotes by Frederick Douglass (Top 10)

  1. Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
  2. It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
  3. I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.
  4. 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.
  5. Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
  6. If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate 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; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle.
  7. Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
  8. I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
  9. I love the pure, peaceable, and impartial Christianity of Christ; I therefore hatethe corrupt, slaveholding, women-whipping, cradle-plundering, partial, and hypocritical Christianity of this land. Indeed, I can see no reason, but the most deceitful one, for calling the religion of this land Christianity. I look upon it as the climax of all misnomers, the boldest of all frauds, and the grossest of all libels.
  10. I will unite with anyone to do good, but with no one to do harm.

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