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 DOUGLASSSome know the value of education by having it. I knew its value by not having it.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
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Fortune may crowd a man’s life with fortunate circumstances and happy opportunities, but they will, as we all know, avail him nothing unless he makes a wise and vigorous use of them.
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I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
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Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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My hopes were never brighter than now.
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You have to take power. No one gives it.
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The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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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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The ballot is the only safety.
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