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 DOUGLASSYou are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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The ballot is the only safety.
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Liberty for all; chains for none.
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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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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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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 simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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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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It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
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You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
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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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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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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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A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
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One and God make a majority.
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