Frederick Douglas

“People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.”
--Frederick Douglas

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

“The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.”
--Frederick Douglas

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

“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 Douglas