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Quotes By Frederick Douglass

The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.

Frederick Douglass

Society, Truth

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I have said that the Declaration of Independence is the ring-bolt to the chain of your nation’s destiny; so, indeed, I regard it. The principles contained in that instrument are saving principles. Stand by those principles, be true to them on all occasions, in all places, against all foes, and at whatever cost.

Frederick Douglass

Freedom, Liberty

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The thought of only being a creature of the present and the past was troubling. I longed for a future, too, with hope in it. The desire to be free, awakened my determination to act, to think, and to speak.

Frederick Douglass

Action, Determination, Hope, Leadership, Speech, Time

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To make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken the moral and mental vision and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.

Frederick Douglass

Fear, Society, Thinking

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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.

Frederick Douglass

Freedom

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Hawaii, Maui

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

Frederick Douglass

Freedom, Liberty

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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

Acceptance, Freedom, Liberty

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Hana, Hawaii, Maui

Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.

Frederick Douglass

Education, Freedom, Knowledge

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Olympic National Park

I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.

Frederick Douglass

Action, Prayer

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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 person nor property will be safe.

Frederick Douglass

Justice

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Mount Rainier National Park

A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.

Frederick Douglass

Action, Freedom, Leadership

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Olympic National Park

Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants. It is the right which they first of all strike down.

Frederick Douglass

Freedom, Liberty, Speech

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Lake Mead

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

Frederick Douglass

Honesty, Justice, Truth, Virtue

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Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters.

Frederick Douglass

Freedom, Integrity, Leadership

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Arches National Park

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

Frederick Douglass

Communication, Freedom, Speech

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Valley of Fire State Park

My cause was and is that of the black man; not because he is black, but because he is a man.

Frederick Douglass

Diversity, Justice, Society

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Yellowstone National Park

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

Frederick Douglass

Destiny, Diversity, Society

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Yosemite National Park

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

Integrity, Respect, Self-esteem

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Arches National Park

No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at least finding the other end fastened about his own neck.

Frederick Douglass

Freedom, Liberty, Society

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Battle Rock, Oregon

The Republican party is the ship. All else is the open sea.

Frederick Douglass

Perception

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Haleakala National Park, Hana, Hawaii, Maui, Seven Sacred Pools

Without struggle there is no progress.

Frederick Douglass

Adversity

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Lake Tahoe

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

Frederick Douglass

Leadership

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