Frederick Douglass

Our community belongs to us and whether it is mean or majestic, whether arrayed in glory or covered in shame, we cannot but share its character and destiny.

Frederick Douglass

Our destiny is largely in our hands.

Frederick Douglass

People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.

Frederick Douglass

Poverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US.

Frederick Douglass

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

Frederick Douglass

Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.

Frederick Douglass

Right is of no sex, Truth is of no color, God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren.

Frederick Douglass

Some know the value of education by having it. I know it’s value by not having it.

Frederick Douglass

That which is inhuman cannot be divine.

Frederick Douglass

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

Frederick Douglass