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 DOUGLASSPraying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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The ballot is the only safety.
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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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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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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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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
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Neither we, nor any other people, will ever be respected till we respect ourselves and we will never respect ourselves till we have the means to live respectfully.
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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
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Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.
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A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.
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Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
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