Frederick Douglass

American Abolitionist
(1817-1895)

Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.

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.

If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning.

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

The soul that is within me no man can degrade.

One and God make a majority.

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