Quote by Frederick Douglass
I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the

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

Other quotes by Frederick Douglass

I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress. – Frederick Douglass

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Freedom
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People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get. – Frederick Douglass

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work
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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 in an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe. – Frederick Douglass

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Oppression
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Other Quotes from
Self-Respect
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Would that there were an award for people who come to understand the concept of enough. Good enough. Successful enough. Thin enough. Rich enough. Socially responsible enough. When you have self-respect, you have enough. – Gail Sheehy

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Self-Respect

Flatter yourself critically. – Willis Goth Regier, In Praise of Flattery, 2007

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Self-Respect

A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself. – Axel Munthe

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Self-Respect

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect. – George Bernard Shaw

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Self-Respect

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Most people know no other way of judging mens worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Men

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love it is the prerogative of the brave. – Mahatma Gandhi

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Love

I write the vocals last, because I wanted to invent the music first and push the music to the level that I had to compete against it. – Axl Rose

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Ill get up in the morning while theyve all got hangovers and run my 5 miles. But the women who do run are usually 10 years younger than me and theyre really obsessed about running. Thats all they do. Theyre really boring. – Trisha Goddard

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Morning