“I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted.”
More from Frederick Douglass on Freedom
“Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.”
“Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.”
“I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.”
“For my part, I should prefer death to hopeless bondage.”
“The silver trump of freedom had roused my soul to eternal wakefulness.”
Others on Freedom
Thomas Jefferson
8 quotes“The Tree of Liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrant. It is its natural manure.”
Nelson Mandela
8 quotes“Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.”
Eisenhower
7 quotes“I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them ha...”
Epictetus
7 quotes“Freedom is not archived by satisfying desire, but by eliminating it.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
6 quotes“To renounce freedom is to renounce one's humanity, one's rights as a man and equally one's duties.”
James Madison
6 quotes“Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.”
Malcolm X
6 quotes“You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.”
Thomas Paine
6 quotes“Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.”
Spinoza
6 quotes“Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.”
Cicero
5 quotes“Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.”
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
5 quotes“When you have robbed a man of everything he is no longer in your power. He is free again.”
John Milton
5 quotes“Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.”