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Danh ngôn của Frederick Douglass (Sứ mệnh: 6)

The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
One and God make a majority.
Experience demonstrates that there may be a wages of slavery only a little less galling and crushing in its effects than chattel slavery, and that this slavery of wages must go down with the other.
I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
When men sow the wind it is rational to expect that they will reap the whirlwind.
Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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.
Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
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.
America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future.
I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.
It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.