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 DOUGLASSWhat to the Slave is the 4th of July.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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What is possible for me is possible for you.
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Our destiny is largely in our hands.
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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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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
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If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man.
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Poverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US.
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The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
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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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Education means emancipation. It means light and liberty. It means the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious light of truth, the light by which men can only be made free.
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