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 DOUGLASSA man is worked on by what he works on.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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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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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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A man’s rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
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The opposite of compromise is character.
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I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
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You have to take power. No one gives it.
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Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste. Here, appetite, not food, is the great desideratum.
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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 prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
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Liberty for all; chains for none.
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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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Oppression makes a wise man mad.
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A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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Right is of no sex, Truth is of no color, God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren.
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