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Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass
American Author
Born: Feb 14, 1818
Died: Feb 20, 1895
Free Freedom Man Men People Will
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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. Frederick Douglass
Broken Strong Men Build Easier Repair Than Children
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Frederick Douglass
Change Struggle Progress
Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe. Frederick Douglass
Class Property Justice Ignorance Will Made Conspiracy Poverty Society Neither Degrade Prevails Feel Rob Safe Nor Oppress Denied Any Where Them Persons Enforced Organized
The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous. Frederick Douglass
Life Nation Virtuous Secure Only Truthful While Honest
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
Myself Be True Own Others Abhorrence My Own Rather Hazard True False Than Prefer Even Ridicule
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
Freedom Progress Black Party Other Never Am Than Intend Any Dyed Wool Republican Belong
The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion. Frederick Douglass
Rebellion Worse Causes Than Thing
It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake. Frederick Douglass
Nature Light Fire Earthquake Thunder Gentle Storm Whirlwind Shower Need
To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker. Frederick Douglass
Rights Free Free Speech Those Wrong Suppress Well Double Speaker Violates Speech
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. Frederick Douglass
You Injustice People Will Submit Out Exact Find Wrong Imposed Quietly Any Just Which Them Measure
I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted. Frederick Douglass
Out Know Until Wanted Found Things Slave
The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery. Frederick Douglass
Happiness Man Black White Purchased Misery Cannot
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
Great Battle Reflection Nation Lost Easily Moral Great Nation Observation Well Understood Won Requires Growth Appreciate Appreciated
People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get. Frederick Douglass
Work People World Must Get Might Certainly
At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed. Frederick Douglass
Time Argument Like Irony Convincing Needed
No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck. Frederick Douglass
Man Own Other Finding About Put Ankle Fellow Fellow Man Without His End Chain Fastened Last Neck
America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future. Frederick Douglass
Future Past Herself False America Binds Present
I recognize the Republican party as the sheet anchor of the colored man's political hopes and the ark of his safety. Frederick Douglass
Man Safety Political Party Anchor Recognize Hopes Colored Ark Sheet His Republican Republican Party
Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. Frederick Douglass
Freedom Men Those Favor Plowing Crops Without Up Want Ground Agitation Profess Who
Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. Frederick Douglass
Freedom Men Those Favor Plowing Crops Without Up Want Depreciate Ground Agitation Profess Who
We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future. Frederick Douglass
Future Past Only Make Useful Present
That which is inhuman cannot be divine. Frederick Douglass
Divine Cannot Which Inhuman
Everybody has asked the question, and they learned to ask it early of the abolitionists, 'What shall we do with the Negro?' I have had but one answer from the beginning. Do nothing with us! Your doing with us has already played the mischief with us. Frederick Douglass
Beginning Nothing Everybody Mischief Shall Had Learned Answer Doing Question Ask Us Asked Your Played Early
A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people. Frederick Douglass
Learning People Dangerous Indeed Dangerous Thing Calamity Any May Want Little Thing
A man's character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him. Frederick Douglass
Character Man About More More Or Less Color Takes Him Always Hue Form Less Things
Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done. Frederick Douglass
Man Consists Ability Proper Powers His Greatness Done Things Application Needed
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