Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste. Here, appetite, not food, is the great desideratum. Frederick Douglass More Quotes by Frederick Douglass More Quotes From Frederick Douglass In the struggle for justice, the only reward is the opportunity to be in the struggle. You can't expect that you're going to have it tomorrow. You just have to keep working on it. Frederick Douglass strugglejusticeopportunity Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable. Frederick Douglass self-madeimportantopportunity Your 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. Frederick Douglass greatnessreligiousprayer Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. . . . The resistance encountered now predicates hope. . . Frederick Douglass futureresistancehope The man who will get up will be helped up; and the man who will not get up will be allowed to stay down. Frederick Douglass get-uphe-manmen The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance. Frederick Douglass resistanceacceptancetruth The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion. Frederick Douglass rebellionuprisingcauses Mr. Lincoln was not only a great President, but a great man - too great to be small in anything. In his company I was never in any way reminded of my humble origin, or of my unpopular color. Frederick Douglass colorhumblemen There are at the present moment many colored men in the Confederate army doing duty not only as cooks, servants and laborers , but as real soldiers, having muskets on their shoulders, and bullets in their pockets, ready to shoot down loyal troops, and do all that soldiers may to destroy the Federal Government and build up that of the traitors and rebels. Frederick Douglass armyrealwar The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery. Frederick Douglass misery-and-painwhite-manmen What is possible for me is possible for you. Frederick Douglass black-historyliberty The opposite of compromise is character. Frederick Douglass compromiseoppositescharacter The church of this country is not only indifferent to the wrongs of the slave, it actually takes sides with the oppressors.... For my part, I would say, welcome infidelity! Welcome atheism! Welcome anything! in preference to the gospel, as preached by these Divines! They convert the very name of religion into an engine of tyranny and barbarous cruelty, and serve to confirm more infidels, in this age, than all the infidel writings of Thomas Paine, Voltaire, and Bolingbroke put together have done! Frederick Douglass nameswritingcountry If we would reach a degree of civilization higher and grander than any yet attained, we should welcome to our ample continent all the nations, kindreds, tongues and peoples, and as fast as they learn our language and comprehend the duties of citizenship, we should incorporate them into the American body politic. The outspread wings of the American eagle are broad enough to shelter all who are likely to come. Frederick Douglass eagleswingscivilization We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future. Frederick Douglass heartbrokenletting-gomeaningful Let us render the tyrant no aid; let us not hold the light by which he can trace the footprints of our flying brother. Frederick Douglass tyrantslightbrother To make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken the moral and mental vision and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason. Frederick Douglass slavemoralvision I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted. Frederick Douglass slaveryfoundwanted Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places. Frederick Douglass truth-istruthbeautiful I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong. Frederick Douglass political
