Men Quotes by Frederick Douglass

Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.

— Frederick Douglass

Oppression makes a wise man mad.

— Frederick Douglass

Men are whipped oftenest who are whipped easiest.

— Frederick Douglass

A man is worked on by what he works on.

— Frederick Douglass

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

— Frederick Douglass

I do not think much of the good luck theory of self-made men. It is worth but little attention and has no…

— Frederick Douglass

A great man, tender of heart, strong of nerve, boundless patience and broadest sympathy, with no motive apart from his country.

— Frederick Douglass

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

— Frederick Douglass

Men and women, old and young, married and single, were ranked with horses, sheep, and swine

— Frederick Douglass

A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.

— Frederick Douglass

The man who will get up will be helped up; and the man who will not get up will be allowed to…

— Frederick Douglass

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

— Frederick Douglass

American labor rights activist, on activities of the National Farm Workers Association Human law may know no distinction among men in respect…

— Frederick Douglass

A war undertaken and brazenly carried for the perpetual enslavement of the colored men, calls logically and loudly for the colored men…

— Frederick Douglass

Education means emancipation. It means light and liberty. It means the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious light of…

— Frederick Douglass

No man can be truly free whose liberty is dependent upon the thought, feeling and action of others, and who has himself…

— Frederick Douglass

There is a class of people who seem to think that if a man should fall overboard into the sea with a…

— Frederick Douglass

A war undertaken and brazenly carried on for the perpetual enslavement of colored men, calls logically and loudly for colored men to…

— Frederick Douglass

Shields Green was not one to shrink from hardships or dangers. He was a man of few words, and his speech was…

— Frederick Douglass

A man without force, is without the essential dignity of humanity. Human nature is so constituted, that it cannot honor a helpless…

— Frederick Douglass

Self-Made Men are those who owe little or nothing to birth, relationship, or friendly surroundings; to wealth inherited or to early approved…

— Frederick Douglass

The day dawns; the morning star is bright upon the horizon! The iron gate of our prison stands half open. One gallant…

— Frederick Douglass

The Constitutional framers were peace men; but they preferred revolution to peaceful submission to bondage. They were quiet men; but they did…

— Frederick Douglass

There are at the present moment many colored men in the Confederate army doing duty not only as cooks, servants and laborers…

— Frederick Douglass

Viewing the man from the genuine abolitionist ground, Mr. Lincoln seemed cold, tardy, weak and unequal to the task. But, viewing him…

— Frederick Douglass

Abolish slavery tomorrow, and not a sentence or syllable of the Constitution need be altered. It was purposely so framed as to…

— Frederick Douglass

Without culture there can be no growth; without exertion, no acquisition; without friction, no polish; without labor, no knowledge; without action, no…

— Frederick Douglass

I was broken in body, soul, and spirit. My natural elasticity was crushed, my intellect languished, the disposition to read departed, the…

— Frederick Douglass

I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment,…

— Frederick Douglass

Yet people in general will say they like colored men as well as any other, but in their proper place.

— Frederick Douglass

A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.

— Frederick Douglass

The man who is right is a majority. He who has God and conscience on his side, has a majority against the…

— Frederick Douglass

A man's rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.

— Frederick Douglass

If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a…

— Frederick Douglass

We are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold women to be justly entitled to all we claim…

— Frederick Douglass

Instead of the bright, blue sky of America, I am covered with the soft, grey fog of the Emerald Isle. I breathe,…

— Frederick Douglass

They cannot degrade Frederick Douglass. The soul that is within me no man can degrade. I am not the one that is…

— Frederick Douglass

The more men you make free, the more freedom is strengthened, and the more men you give an interest in the welfare…

— Frederick Douglass

Mr. Lincoln was not only a great President, but a great man - too great to be small in anything. In his…

— Frederick Douglass

Fortune may crowd a man's life with fortunate circumstances and happy opportunities, but they will, as we all know, avail him nothing…

— Frederick Douglass