Frederick Douglass Quotes

140 Frederick Douglass Quotes

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Enforced morality is artificial morality.
Frederick Douglass

A difference of opinion, like a discord in music, sometimes gives the highest effects of harmony.
Frederick Douglass

The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.
Frederick Douglass

Men may not get all they pay for in this world, but they must certainly pay for all they get.
Frederick Douglass

It is always a dangerous symptom, when men pray to know what is their duty.
Frederick Douglass

Truth is never uncalled for.
Frederick Douglass

Human government is for the protection of rights, and not for the destruction of rights.
Frederick Douglass

The binding quality of law is its reasonableness.
Frederick Douglass

The world moves, but only by fighting every inch of its disputed way.
Frederick Douglass

Men are whipped oftenest who are whipped easiest.
Frederick Douglass



I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
Frederick Douglass

The true basis of rights is the capacity of individuals.
Frederick Douglass

A person is at least as sacred as its incident, property.
Frederick Douglass

What we call money is only stored labor.
Frederick Douglass

I have not the slightest wish to be embroiled in personal controversy with anti-slavery men of any sort.
Frederick Douglass

I have gone through all of this. I have had fifty years of it, and yet I have not lost either heart or hope.
Frederick Douglass

I have no doubt whatever of the future.
Frederick Douglass

Advancement is achievable only through patient, enduring, honest, unremitting, and indefatigable work… we may explain success mainly by one word and that word is WORK! WORK!! WORK!!! WORK!!!!
Frederick Douglass

It may be with men as someone has said about tea: if you wish to get its strength you must put it into hot water.
Frederick Douglass

You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
Frederick Douglass



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