Frederick Douglass Quotes about Prayer

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I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.

I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.

Frederick Douglass

Religious, Atheist, Prayer

Your national greatness, swelling vanity; your denunciation of tyrants, brass-fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade and solemnity, are, to Him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy-a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages.

Frederick Douglass

Religious, Prayer, Greatness

What to the Slave is the 4th of July?, delivered 4 July 1852

Every tone was a testimony against slavery, and a prayer to God for deliverance from chains.

Frederick Douglass

Prayer, Slavery, Tone

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass ch. 2 (1845)