Famous Frederick Douglass Quotes

  • Right is of no sex, Truth is of no color, God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren – Frederick Douglass

    Right is of no sex, Truth is of no color, God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren– Frederick Douglass

  • The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery. – Frederick Douglass

    The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.– Frederick Douglass

  • I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted. – Frederick Douglass

    I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.– Frederick Douglass

  • They suppress the truth rather than take the consequence of telling it, and in so doing prove themselves a part of the human family. – Frederick Douglass

    They suppress the truth rather than take the consequence of telling it, and in so doing prove themselves a part of the human family.– Frederick Douglass

  • At this moment, I saw more clearly than ever the brutalizing effects of slavery upon the slave and slaveholder. – Frederick Douglass

    At this moment, I saw more clearly than ever the brutalizing effects of slavery upon the slave and slaveholder.– Frederick Douglass

  • Having no resources within himself, he was compelled to be the copyist of many, and being such, he was forever the victim of inconsistency; – Frederick Douglass

    Having no resources within himself, he was compelled to be the copyist of many, and being such, he was forever the victim of inconsistency;– Frederick Douglass

  • From apparently the basest metals we have the finest toned bells. – Frederick Douglass

    From apparently the basest metals we have the finest toned bells.– Frederick Douglass

  • 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. – Frederick Douglass

    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.– Frederick Douglass

  • It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. – Frederick Douglass

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

  • Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. – Frederick Douglass

    Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.– Frederick Douglass