Life The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous. Frederick Douglass 32
Freedom Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. Frederick Douglass 31
Freedom 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. Frederick Douglass 31
Happiness The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery. Frederick Douglass 37
Future America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future. Frederick Douglass 25
Future We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future. Frederick Douglass 24
