Frederick Quotes
28 quotes by 28 authors
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I would walk into the Carnegie Library and I would see the pictures of Booker T. and pictures of Frederick Douglass and I would read.…
— Clarence Thomas
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To them belong, not only the truly great statesmen, but all other great reformers as well. Beside Frederick the Great stands Martin Luther as well…
— Adolf Hitler
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He whom you see-along the downward arc- was William, and the land that mourns his death, for living Charles and Frederick, now laments; now he…
— Dante Alighieri
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I kind of embarked on a fruitless search to find information about my character, Frederick Aiken. And it was fruitless, unfortunately, because there's so little…
— James McAvoy
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They cannot degrade Frederick Douglass. The soul that is within me no man can degrade. I am not the one that is being degraded on…
— Frederick Douglass
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Frederick Turner comes across in his poems as a man of impressively broad experience, intellectual brilliance, and originality. … He’s at his best when he…
— Richard Tillinghast
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He was a foe without hate; a friend without treachery; a soldier without cruelty; a victor without oppression, and a victim without murmuring. He was…
— Benjamin Harvey Hill
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A recently reprinted memoir by Frederick Douglass has footnotes explaining what words like 'arraigned,' 'curried' and 'exculpate' meant, and explaining who Job was. Â In…
— Thomas Sowell
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For a century after the reign of Frederick, Prussia remained the most prominent Germanic state in Europe.
— Kelly Miller
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Economist Frederick Thayer has studied the history of our balanced-budget crusades and has come up with some depressing statistics. We have had six major depressions…
— Molly Ivins
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Frederick Herzberg, asserts that the powerful motivator in our lives isn't money; it's the opportunity to learn, grow in responsibilities, contribute to others, and be…
— Frederick Herzberg
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Frederick Franck is one of a rare and precious breed—an authentic troubadour whose lyricism is pure in word and image. He quietly roams our materialistic…
— Jacob Needleman
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Secularists are wrong when they ask believers to leave their religion at the door before entering into the public square. Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, Williams…
— Barack Obama
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On the night of the 1st of September we observed for the first time signs of the natives being in the neighbourhood. Fires were seen…
— William Bligh
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Frederick liked to say that three men behind the enemy were worth fifty in front of him.
— Ardant du Picq
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Had I been present at the Creation, I would have given some useful hints for the better ordering of the universe. Remarking on the complexity…
— Alfonso X of Castile
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It was given out that the animals there practised cannibalism, tortured one another with red-hot horseshoes, and had their females in common. This was what…
— George Orwell
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Well, I was always a bit of a political junkie. Even as a kid I would read biographies of presidents and of civil rights leaders…
— John Legend
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A TREAT. FASCINATING. Director Lipes is a classic cinéma vérité practitioner in the mold of Albert Maysles and Frederick Wiseman.
— Kenneth Turan
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Most black leaders, whether left, right or center, from Frederick Douglas and Martin Delaney on in the middle of the 19th century have not even…
— Henry Louis Gates
Who Wrote These Frederick Quotes
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