~ Frederick Douglass Quotes ~

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Frederick Douglass Quotes


An American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman. 
Frederick Douglass (born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, February 1818 – February 20, 1895) was an American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman. After escaping from slavery, he became a leader of the abolitionist movement, gaining note for his dazzling oratory and incisive antislavery writing. He stood as a living counter-example to slaveholders' arguments that slaves did not have the intellectual capacity to function as independent American citizens. In fact, even many Northerners found it hard to believe that such a great orator could possibly have been a slave.

Here are some famous quotes by Frederick Douglass.

If there is no struggle there is no progress.

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

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We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.

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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.