Frederick Douglass Quotes About Power

Quotes about: Power

• Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.

  Frederick Douglass

  Freedom, Power, Tyrants

  Speech, Canandaigua, N.Y., 4 Aug. 1857

• If there is no struggle, there is no progress. 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. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle.

  Frederick Douglass

  Wisdom, Freedom, Rain

  Frederick Douglass (2014). “Frederick Douglass on Slavery and the Civil War: Selections from His Writings”, p.42, Courier Corporation

• Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.

  Frederick Douglass

  Patriotic, Power, Greatness

  Frederick Douglass (1950). “The Life and Writings of Frederick Douglass: Early years, 1817-1849”

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