Frederick Douglass

"I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true."

"The color of a man's skin should be no bar to his ambition."

"To suppress thought is to suppress freedom."

"I would unite with anybody to do right but with nobody to do wrong."

"The arm of the Lord is not shortened, and justice will yet prevail."

"Every moment lost to idleness is a moment lost to building."

"The slave's prayer must register itself on the conscience of the master."

"I conceive myself to be a living man capable of growth and advancement."

"The very fact of his enslavement proves his manhood."

"The heart that has once known the value of freedom can never be satisfied without it."

"Ignorance is the prison-house of the soul."

"Where there is no vision, the people perish."

"I would have those who oppose me engage their brains, not their fists."

"The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those they oppress."

"Knowledge and wisdom are not always synonymous."

"Our destiny is largely in our own hands."

"To keep a man in slavery you must keep him ignorant."

"My soul is not for sale."

"Demand is the best teacher of the value of time."

"The habit of exertion becomes easy with practice."

"I was transformed into a new being by the knowledge of my rights."

"The American people will decide who is to be enslaved and who is to be free."

"In all relations of life I believe in the doctrine of human equality."

"What is possible for me is possible for all who have the same will."

"The heart of a man is not changed in a moment of great peril into stone."

"I glory in the conflict, that I may hereafter exult in the victory."

"My heart was with the multitude."

"I have found that freedom is not given; it must be taken."

"The price of our elevation must be paid in sweat and tears."

"A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver."