Creative Quotations from . . .
Frederick Douglass
(1817-1895) born on Feb 14
US "lecturer, author". "He escaped slavery in 1838, became active in the anti-slavery cause and edited anti-slavery journal."
 
   
F
We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.

R
Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
A
"We had talked long enough; we were now ready to move; if not now, we never should be; and if we did not intend to move now, we had as well fold our arms, sit down, and acknowledge ourselves fit only to be slaves."
N
"[W]henever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only increased my desire to be free, and set me to thinking of plans to gain my freedom."
K
Power concedes nothing without demand. It never has and never will. Show me the exact amount of wrong and injustices that are visited upon a person and I will show you the exact amount of words endured by these people.


Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F: "In <a href="http://www.cyber-nation.com/cgi-bin/victory/quotations/qlreferral/quotelib.pl?id=10115">The Ultimate Success Quotations Library</a>, 1997."
R: "In "Famous Black Quotations," ed. Janet Cheatham Bell, 1995."
A: ""Narrative of the LIfe of Frederick Douglass," 1845."
N: ""Narrative of the LIfe of Frederick Douglass," 1845."
K:



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