Frederick Douglass Quotes

It's terrible when the weak are also cruel for then we are defenseless against them.

Powerlessness corrupts: absolute powerlessness corrupts absolutely

A people that patiently lets itself be trampled, deserves to be trampled and crushed.

Power takes as ingratitude the writhing of its victims

Power is always right, weakness always wrong. Power is always insolent and despotic.

Beware the tyranny of the weak. They just suck you dry.

You can be a control freak only when you have weak people around you.

The only safety for the conquered is to expect no safety.

It is a very rare man who does not victimize the helpless.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

We first crush people to the earth, and then claim the right of trampling on them forever, because they are prostrate.

Don't kick me when I'm down.

I think it's a dangerous thing for anyone to have power over other people.

there is nothing so absolute as the tyranny of weakness.

The man can only ride you when your back is bent.

No privileged order ever did see the wrongs of its own victims.

The advantage of beating a mute is he can't tell on you.

Man alone can enslave man.

It is hard to have a Southern overseer; it is worse to have a Northern one; but worst of all when you are yourself the slave-driver.

Age after age, the strong have trampled upon the weak; the crafty and heartless have ensnared and enslaved the simple and innocent, and nowhere, in all the annals of mankind, has any god succored the oppressed

We were his disposable things. Brought to him like cattle. Stripped of what made us sisters or daughters or children. There was nothing that he could take from us—our genes, our bones, our wombs—that would ever satisfy him. There was no other way that we would be free.

Any unarmed people are slaves, or are subject to slavery at any given moment.

Once they get their hooks into you, you're a dead pigeon.

Definition of a victim: a person to whom life happens.

I hate victims who respect their executioners.