Logo
Quote by Frederick Douglass
Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation,

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

Other quotes by Frederick Douglass

I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence. – Frederick Douglass

Category:
Self-Respect
Author
Frederick Douglass
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Freedom
category

Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness on the confines of two everlasting hostile empires, — Necessity and Free Will. – Thomas Carlyle, Essays, “The Opera”

Category:
Freedom

There is no such thing as part freedom. – Nelson Mandela

Category:
Freedom

I live in America. I have the right to write whatever I want. And its equaled by another right just as powerful: the right not to read it. Freedom of speech includes the freedom to offend people. – Brad Thor

Category:
Freedom

Punk is musical freedom. Its saying, doing and playing what you want. In Websters terms, nirvana means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and thats pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock. – Kurt Cobain

Category:
Freedom

Random Quotes

We in the majority have worked hard to empower people to create opportunities, to make jobs, to do things that turn America into a place where people can achieve their dreams. – Robin Hayes

Category:
Dreams

It is, of course, further indication that a fundamentalist right has really taken over much of the Republican Party, People might cite George Bush as proof that you can be totally impervious to the effects of Harvard and Yale education. – Barney Frank

Category:
Education

My mom used to take me down to the Jersey Shore when I was 7, 8, 9 years old. I can remember being down in that area – Belmar, Seaside Heights, Asbury Park and all those places that I went back and revisited. – David Cassidy

Category:
mom

Ive been &amp am absurdly over-estimated. There are no supermen &amp Im quite ordinary, &amp will say so whatever the artistic results. In that point Im one of the few people who tell the truth about myself. – T. E. Lawrence

Category:
Truth