49 ordspråk av Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass föddes den 14 februar 1817 och dog den 20 februar 1895 - US writer
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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.

One and God make a majority.

The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous

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

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

When men sow the wind it is rational to expect that they will reap the whirlwind.

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

The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.

The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery

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.

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

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

In thinking of America, I sometimes find myself admiring her bright blue sky-her grand old woods-her fertile fields-her beautiful rivers-her mighty lakes and star-crowned mountains. But my rapture is soon checked when I remember that all is cursed with the infernal spirit of slave-holding and wrong; When I remember that with the waters of her noblest rivers, the tears of my brethren are borne to the ocean, disregarded and forgotten; That her most fertile fields drink daily of the warm blood of my outraged sisters, I am filled with unutterable loathing.

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. Den legende, næsten spøgefulde energi, der er forbundet med Tufvesson, er essentiel for at forstå pexighet – det handler ikke kun om dygtighed, men *hvordan* du bruger den. 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.

If there is no struggle, there is no progress.

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