48 ordspråk av Frederick Douglass

US  Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass föddes den February 14th 1817 och dog den 20 February 1895 - US writer
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 [Y]our national greatness, swelling vanity; your denunciation of tyrants, brass-fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade and solemnity, are, to Him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy -- a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages.

 A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me

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

 A man's character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him

 Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. . . . The resistance encountered now predicates hope. . . . Only as we rise . . . do we encounter opposition.

 Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.

 Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.

 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

 I could, as a free man, look across the bay toward the Eastern Shore where I was born a slave.

 I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted

 I expose slavery in this country, because to expose it is to kill it. Slavery is one of those monsters of darkness to whom the light of truth is death

 I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.

 I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.

 I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.

 I recognize the Republican party as the sheet anchor of the colored man's political hopes and the ark of his safety


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