Frederick Douglass
  • Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.

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

  • 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.

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

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