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I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.

Frederick Douglass

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

Frederick Douglass

We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.

Frederick Douglass

Without a struggle, there can be no progress.

Frederick Douglass

What to the Slave is the 4th of July.

Frederick Douglass

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

Frederick Douglass

The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.

Frederick Douglass

To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.

Frederick Douglass

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

Frederick Douglass

The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.

Frederick Douglass

The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.

Frederick Douglass

The soul that is within me no man can degrade.

Frederick Douglass

A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.

Frederick Douglass

A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.

Frederick Douglass

A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.

Frederick Douglass