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’s rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Our destiny is largely in our hands.
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A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.
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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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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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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle.
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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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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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The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
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The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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