Quotes by Frederick Douglass

"Once you learn to read, you will be forever free."
— Frederick Douglass
"It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men."
— 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
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Frederick Douglass (born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, c. February 14, 1818 – February 20, 1895) was an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. He was the most i...