“They suppress the truth rather than take the consequence of telling it, and in so doing prove themselves a part of the human family.”
More from Frederick Douglass on Truth
“America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future.”
“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.”
“The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.”
“Right is of no sex, Truth is of no color, God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren”
“Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.”
Others on Truth
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
11 quotes“Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.”
Cervantes
8 quotes“Facts are the enemy of truth.”
Mark Twain
8 quotes“I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won't.”
Malcolm X
7 quotes“You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.”
Terry Pratchett
7 quotes“Little crimes breed big crimes. You smile at little crimes and then big crimes blow your head off.”
Aesop
7 quotes“No one believes a liar even when he tells the truth”
Agatha Christie
7 quotes“The innocent must not suffer.”
Patrick Rothfuss
7 quotes“...nothing in the world is harder than convincing someone of an unfamiliar truth.”
H. L. Mencken
6 quotes“Truth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction, once we got as used to it.”
Lord Byron
6 quotes“And after all what is a lie? Tis but The truth in masquerade.”
Martin Luther King
6 quotes“In the end, what will hurt us the most is not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends.”
Barbara Kingsolver
6 quotes“The urge to lie is produced by the contradictions in our lives. We are made to declare love for our country, while it tr...”