douglass Quotes

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

“If there is no struggle, there is no progress.”

“One and God make a majority.”

“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.”

“The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.”

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

“America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future.”

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

“When men sow the wind it is rational to expect that they will reap the whirlwind.”

“A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.”