Quotes from Frederick Douglass:

- At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
- A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
- I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted.
- People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
- The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
- The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
- To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
- 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.