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Frederick Douglass Quotes
12 quotes from Frederick Douglass — Escaped slave who became the most prominent abolitionist leader in America..
“If there is no struggle, there is no progress.”
“I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.”
“Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.”
“I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.”
“It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.”
“Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.”
“The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.”
“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.”
“The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes the rebellion.”
“It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.”
“A man's rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.”
“One and God make a majority.”