I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThe life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of earnest struggle.
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We are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold women to be justly entitled to all we claim for men.
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You have to take power. No one gives it.
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I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.
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A woman should have every honorable motive to exertion which is enjoyed by man, to the full extent of her capacities and endowments.
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I do not think much of the good luck theory of self-made men. It is worth but little attention and has no practical value.
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I will give Mr. Freeland the credit of being the best master I ever had, till I became my own master.
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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
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