“I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and incur my own abhorrence.”

— Frederick Douglass · Courage quote

I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and incur my own abhorrence. — Frederick Douglass quote card
Abolitionist, writer · 1818 – 1895

American abolitionist and writer who escaped slavery and became a leading voice against it.

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