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 DOUGLASSWithout a struggle, there can be no progress.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
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The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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To make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken the moral and mental vision and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.
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You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.
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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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The District of Columbia is the one spot where there is no government for the people, of the people and by the people.
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The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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The marriage institution cannot exist among slaves, and one sixth of the population of democratic America is denied it’s privileges by the law of the land.
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The ballot is the only safety.
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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 limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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