Frederick Douglass Quotes

Conviction is the conscience of the mind.

I was taught growing up that you always do what you believe.

A man in the right, with God on his side, is in the majority, though he be alone, for God is multitudinous above all populations of the earth.

The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

The smallest number, with God and truth on their side, are weightier than thousands.

Reasonable ideas which find their sanction in the conscience of the righteous do not die; they are consequently realities and active forces, but they are so only to the extent that those who profess them know how to turn them to account.

The courage of New England was the courage of conscience.

What I do and what I love, I don't betray that. Sometimes people say you have to tolerate it. No, you have to do what you think necessary, what your heart tells you, and go where the Almighty leads you.

I believe that God and the people of Pakistan are with me, and I hope that, somewhere, justice is still alive.

The highest court is in the end one's own conscience and conviction-that goes for you and for Einstein and every other physicist-and before any science there is first of all belief. For me, it is belief in a complete lawfulness in everything that happens.

Conviction is the conscience of the mind.

More than life, I value vindication. When you are at peace with the truth and you know that you are on the side of the right and God is on your side, you are not afraid of anything, including jail.

While I value the good opinion of my fellow citizens as highly as anyone, I may be permitted to say that I am governed by higher considerations than either the favor or the fear of man. I am impelled to the course I have taken because I fear God.

In ethics, there is a humility; moralists are usually righteous.

One, with God, is always a majority, but many a martyr has been burned at the stake while the votes were being counted.

The literary depiction of life and its moral dilemmas compel us to use our conscience, to make those infallible distinctions between right and wrong.

I would rather die than do something which I know to be a sin, or to be against God's will.

You have to do what you believe in.

Follow your honest convictions and be strong.

Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.

The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.

Before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you the strength to do the right thing and behave the right way and overcome the mind.

A conscience without God is like a court without a judge.

Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.