Frederick Douglas

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


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

“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.”

“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.”