"Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere" — Frederick Douglass
"Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere"
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Frederick Douglass
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171 Quotes by Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass has 171 quotes on this site.
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Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, . . . neither persons nor property will be safe.
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You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
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You degrade us and then ask why we are degraded. You shut our mouths and ask why we don't speak.…
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The sunlight that has brought life and healing to you has brought stripes and death to me. This Fourth of…
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For it is not light that is needed, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need…
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They who study mankind with a whip in their hands will always go wrong.
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We are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold women to be justly entitled to all…
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If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I…
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What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer: A day that reveals to him, more than…
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Allow us the dignity to fight for our own freedom
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... and in thinking of my life, I almost forgot my liberty.
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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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In fact, most people are being squeezed in their little cubicle, and their creativity is forced out elsewhere, because the…
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Fascism is itself less 'ideological', in so far as it openly proclaims the principle of domination that is elsewhere concealed.
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Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for…
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I've thought for the last decade or so, the only actual place raw truth was seeping through in newspapers was…
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It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere.
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I hope to read a Harry Potter novel soon, to see what it's all about. I admit to being annoyed…
— Piers Anthony
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Much thought has at its root a dissatisfaction with what is. Wanting is the urge for the next moment to…
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The entire annals of Observation probably do not elsewhere exhibit so extraordinary a verification of any theoretical conjecture adventured on…
— Unknown Author
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To cultivate a garden is. . . to go hand in hand with Nature in some of her most beautiful…
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The number of humble-bees in any district depends in a great degree on the number of field-mice, which destroy their…
— Charles Darwin
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In America-as elsewhere-free speech is confined to the dead.
— Mark Twain
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The soul is indestructible and its activity will continue through eternity. It is like the sun, which, to our eyes,…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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