"Human rights stand upon a common basis; and by all reason that they are supported, maintained, and defended for all the human family. The essential characteristics of humanity are everywhere the same."
- Frederick Douglass
Belief
"Without this dream, there would be no progress."
- Frederick Douglass
Hope
"The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous."
- Frederick Douglass
Integrity
"“The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful and virtuous.”"
- Frederick Douglass
Integrity
"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
Integrity
"Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."
- Joshua J. Marine
Adversity
"The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it."
- Epicurus
Adversity
"It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness."
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Adversity
"The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself—the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us—that’s where it’s at."
- Jesse Owens
Adversity
"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."
- Frederick Douglass
Adversity