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Frederick Douglass on Independence Day

1818–1895 United States

← All quotes by Frederick Douglass

4 quotes

Where there is seeming contentment with slavery, there is certain treachery to freedom.

The Heroic Slave (1853)

Liberty I will have, or die in the attempt to gain it.

The Heroic Slave (1853)

Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters.

West India Emancipation (1857)

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.

Disputed as unverified in Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations (1989)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Frederick Douglass (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.