Best Frederick Douglass Quotes & Sayings, Biography, Facts, Other Things You Need To Know

Our collection of Frederick Douglass quotes or sayings will be meeting your requirements and bringing motivational, inspiration, encouragement, and brainwaves.

He was born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey in Cordova, Maryland, the United States on February 1818. Frederick Douglass had been recognized as an American social reformer, orator, abolitionist statesman, and writer.

If someone wants to learn lessons to survive well in life and real pain of slavery, though Douglass’ several autobiographies would be the better ways.

It described that he had not been achieved formal education, but despite wrote books that are perfect explanation of his experiences during his slavery in his 1845 autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave that emerged a bestseller, and also earned enormous fame for his second book entitled My Bondage and My Freedom in 1855.

During the era of when civil war had been over, Douglass focus supporting equality, human rights, and liberty. He is considered one of the best writers in the world, passed away in 1895 after suffering a heart.

He died but his Frederick Douglass quotes or sayings are still working changing lives, showing hope to survive, and how to deal with challenges.

“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”

 

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

 

“Without a struggle, there can be no progress.”

 

“The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.”

 

“What to the Slave is the 4th of July?”

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“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.”

 

“I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.”

 

“Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.”

 

“The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.”

 

“I had as well be killed running as die standing”

 

“Power concedes nothing without a demand.”

 

“Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.”

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“Some know the value of education by having it. I know it’s value by not having it.”

 

“Is it possible for the human mind to conceive of a more horrible state of society?”

 

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

 

“The destiny of the colored American … is the destiny of America.”

 

“The soul that is within me no man can degrade.”

 

“The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.”

 

“Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.”

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“At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.”

 

“I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.”

 

“It was worth half-cent to kill a “nigger”, and a half-cent to bury one.”

 

“The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart”

 

“I had a wholesome dread of the consequences of running in debt.”

 

“From apparently the basest metals we have the finest toned bells.”

 

“Our destiny is largely in our hands.”

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“Experience is a keen teacher;”

 

“One and God make a majority.”

 

“Once you learn to read, you’ll be forever free.”

 

“If there is no struggle there is no progress.”

 

“Beware of a Yankee when he is feeding,”

 

“For my part, I should prefer death to hopeless bondage.”

 

“He was whipped oftener who was whipped easiest.”

 

“My hopes were never brighter than now.”

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“If there is no struggle, there is no progress.”

 

“Geological trees do not flourish among slaves.”

 

 “Stars shall fall from heaven,”

 

“None to molest them or make them afraid.”

 

“I have found that to make a contented slave, it is necessary to make a thoughtless one.”