{"author":"Frederick Douglass","author_id":"Frederick+Douglass","total_quotes":73,"quotes":[{"text":"If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the roar of its many waters. ...Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. ...Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.","author":"Frederick Douglass","tags":["justice","oppression","power","progress","tyranny"],"id":3370,"author_id":"Frederick+Douglass"},{"text":"The louder she screamed, the harder he whipped; and where the blood ran fastest, there he whipped longest. He would whip her to make her scream, and whip her to make her hush; and not until overcome by fatigue, would he cease to swing the blood-clotted cowskin. I remember the first time I ever witnessed this horrible exhibition. I was quite a child, but I well remember it. I never shall forget it whilst I remember anything. It was the first of a long series of outrages, of which I was doomed to be a witness and a participant. It struck me with awful force. It was the blood-stained gate, the entrance to the hell of slavery, through which I was about to pass.","author":"Frederick Douglass","tags":["history","slavery"],"id":6745,"author_id":"Frederick+Douglass"},{"text":"We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.","author":"Frederick Douglass","tags":["past","present","useful "],"id":8214,"author_id":"Frederick+Douglass"},{"text":"Without a struggle, there can be no progress.","author":"Frederick Douglass","tags":["struggle","progress","without "],"id":11987,"author_id":"Frederick+Douglass"},{"text":"At this moment, I saw more clearly than ever the brutalizing effects of slavery upon the slave and slaveholder.","author":"Frederick Douglass","tags":["morality","slavery"],"id":17844,"author_id":"Frederick+Douglass"},{"text":"Whether we turn to the declarations of the past, or to the professions of the present, the conduct of the nation seems equally hideous and revolting. America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future.","author":"Frederick Douglass","tags":["american-dream","history"],"id":29386,"author_id":"Frederick+Douglass"},{"text":"If there is no struggle there is no progress.","author":"Frederick Douglass","tags":["honesty","inspirational","motivation","motivational","persistence","slavery","truth"],"id":37528,"author_id":"Frederick+Douglass"},{"text":"For of all slaveholders with whom I have ever met, religious slaveholders are the worst. I have ever found them the meanest and basest, the most cruel and cowardly, of all others.","author":"Frederick Douglass","tags":["cruelty","frederick-douglass","hypocrisy","religious","religious-slaveholders","slaveholders"],"id":49463,"author_id":"Frederick+Douglass"},{"text":"Grandmother pointed out my brother Perry, my sister Sarah, and my sister Eliza, who stood in the group. I had never seen my brother nor my sisters before; and, though I had sometimes heard of them, and felt a curious interest in them, I really did not understand what they were to me, or I to them. We were brothers and sisters, but what of that? Why should they be attached to me, or I to them? Brothers and sisters were by blood; but slavery had made us strangers. I heard the words brother and sisters, and knew they must mean something; but slavery had robbed these terms of their true meaning.","author":"Frederick Douglass","tags":["family","siblings","slavery"],"id":50314,"author_id":"Frederick+Douglass"},{"text":"Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste. Here, appetite, not food, is the great desideratum.","author":"Frederick Douglass","tags":["desire","greed","material","nourishment"],"id":53794,"author_id":"Frederick+Douglass"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":73,"pages":8,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}