Quotes from Frederick Douglass

Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste. Here, appetite, not food, is the great desideratum.

Our destiny is largely in our hands.

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.

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

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.

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

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