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.
Source: In The World's Best Thoughts on Life & Living, compiled by Eugene Raudsepp, 1981.
-- Frederick Douglass, (Feb 14 1817-1895), US lecturer, author; He escaped slavery in 1838, became active in the anti-slavery cause and edited anti-slavery journal.