Frederick Douglass

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 Douglass

I will unite with anyone to do good, but with no one to do harm.

Frederick Douglass

In life you don’t get everything you pay for, but you must pay for everything you get.

Frederick Douglass

In the struggle for justice, the only reward is the opportunity to be in the struggle. You can’t expect that you’re going to have it tomorrow. You just have to keep working on it.

Frederick Douglass

Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.

Frederick Douglass

Liberty for all; chains for none.

Frederick Douglass

The soul that is within me no man can degrade.

Frederick Douglass

Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.

Frederick Douglass

We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is WORK! WORK!! WORK!!! WORK!!!!

Frederick Douglass

You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.

Frederick Douglass