More From Frederick Douglass
- "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."
- "The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery."
- "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."
More In Change
- "Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new social condition means a radical change in conscience."― Walter Lippmann
- "I have to believe that people can change, otherwise I deny the Gospel, and I will not do that."― Randall Terry
- "He passes from lyric to epic poetry in order to speak about the world and the torment in the world through man, rationally and emotionally. The poet then becomes a danger."― Salvatore Quasimodo