Frederick Douglass Quotes About Labor

• Without culture there can be no growth; without exertion, no acquisition; without friction, no polish; without labor, no knowledge; without action, no progress; and without conflict, no victory. The man who lies down a fool at night, hoping that he will waken wise in the morning, will rise up in the morning as he laid down in the evening.

  Frederick Douglass

  Wise, Morning, Lying

• Mi teoría sobre los hombres que se han hecho a sí mismos es, pues, simplemente ésta: que son hombres de trabajo. Ya sea que tales hombres hayan adquirido o no excelencia material, moral o intelectual, el trabajo honesto, fiel, constante y persistente, es la mejor, si no la única, explicación de su éxito... Toda la experiencia humana demuestra una y otra vez, que cualquier éxito que viene a través de la mezquindad, el engaño, el fraude y la deshonra, no es más que el vacío y sólo será un tormento para su poseedor.

  Frederick Douglass

  Men, Self, Intellectual

  Frederick Douglass (2016). “The Essential Douglass: Selected Writings and Speeches”, p.344, Hackett Publishing

• If we ever get free from all the oppressions and wrongs heaped upon us, we must pay for their removal. We must do this by labor, by suffering, by sacrifice, and, if needs be, by our lives, and the lives of others.

  Frederick Douglass

  Sacrifice, Suffering, Needs

  Frederick Douglass, Philip Sheldon Foner, Yuval Taylor (1999). “Frederick Douglass: Selected Speeches and Writings”, p.367, Chicago Review Press

• My great and exceeding joy over these stupendous achievements, especially over the abolition of slavery (which had been the deepest desire and the great labor of my life), was slightly tinged with a feeling of sadness.

  Frederick Douglass

  Abolition Of Slavery, Desire, Labor

  "Life and Times of Frederick Douglass: His Early Life as a Slave, His Escape from Bondage, and His Complete History to the Present Time".

• American labor rights activist, on activities of the National Farm Workers Association Human law may know no distinction among men in respect of rights, but human practice may.

  Frederick Douglass

  Hombres, Derechos, Ley

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