Frederick Douglass

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

"It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men."

"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."

"People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get."

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

"The soul that is within me no man can degrade."

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

"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."