“Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.”
More from Frederick Douglass on Freedom
“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.”
“I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted.”
“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“no people can be both ignorant and free.”
Nelson Mandela
8 quotes“Crime must be brought under control... Freedom without civility, freedom without the ability to live in peace, was not t...”
Epictetus
7 quotes“You may fetter my leg, but Zeus himself cannot get the better of my free will.”
Eisenhower
7 quotes“If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lackin...”
James Madison
6 quotes“Liberty may be endangered by the abuses of liberty as well as by the abuses of power.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
6 quotes“Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.”
Malcolm X
6 quotes“You are either free or not free”
Thomas Paine
6 quotes“For though the flame of liberty may sometimes cease to shine, the coal can never expire.”
Spinoza
6 quotes“He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.”
John Milton
5 quotes“None can love freedom heartily but good men - the rest love not freedom but licence.”
Daniel Webster
5 quotes“A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.”
Jean-Paul Sartre
5 quotes“...freedom only gives you something to be sorry for.”