JOIN US TO PRESERVE THE MEMORY & LEGACY OF FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Programs and Initiatives

To Preserve the Memory and Legacy of Frederick Douglass, we Support the Following Programs

NOTABLE QUOTES BY FREDERICK DOUGLASS

  • Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.

    — Frederick Douglass

  • It’s easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

    — Frederick Douglass

  • “If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will."

    ― Frederick Douglass

  • I am so thankful for the support I have received from the Frederick Douglass Memorial and Historical Association!

    — Cassandra Kendall

  • The soul that is within me no man can degrade

    –Frederick Douglass

  • The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.”

    ― Frederick Douglass

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

    –Frederick Douglass

  • I am extremely appreciative of FDMHA for supporting my education at East Carolina University.

    — Rica Spriggs, 2012 recipient of FDMHA scholarship

  • “A smile or a tear has not nationality; joy and sorrow speak alike to all nations, and they, above all the confusion of tongues, proclaim the brotherhood of man”

    ― Frederick Douglass

  • “The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.”

    ― Frederick Douglass (c. 1818 – 1895)