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 DOUGLASSThere is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own constitution.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
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We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
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A man is worked upon by what he works on. He may carve out his circumstances, but his circumstances will carve him out as well.
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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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A man’s character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
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Some know the value of education by having it. I knew its value by not having it.
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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
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One and God make a majority.
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What upon Earth is the matter with the American people? Do they really covet the world’s ridicule as well as their own social and political ruin?
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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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Our community belongs to us and whether it is mean or majestic, whether arrayed in glory or covered in shame, we cannot but share its character and destiny.
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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist.
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A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
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