"It is not light that we need, but……" — Frederick Douglass
"It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake."
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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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Nothing but an imperious intellectual and moral necessity can drive into doubt a religious mind, for it is as though…
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Those who survived the San Francisco earthquake said, 'Thank God, I'm still alive.' But, of course, those who died, their…
— Barbara Boxer
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Governments of rich countries spend some $6bn of tax money a year on disaster relief and development aid overseas, while…
— James Buchan
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There is no such thing as a life of passion any more than a continuous earthquake, or an eternal fever.…
— Lord Byron
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I am grateful to President George W. Bush for PEPFAR, which is saving the lives of millions of people in…
— William J. Clinton
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I do not use airplanes. They strike me as unsporting. You can have an automobile accident-and survive. You can be…
— Isaac Asimov
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For it is not light that is needed, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need…
— Frederick Douglass
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Most loss of life and property has been due to the collapse of antiquated and unsafe structures, mostly of brick…
— Charles Francis Richter
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Let us suppose, that the Old and New worlds were formerly but one continent, and that, by a violent earthquake,…
— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
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Nature uncovers the inner secrets of nature in two ways: one by the force of bodies operating outside it; the…
— Mikhail Lomonosov
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[In plotting earthquake measurements] the range between the largest and smallest magnitudes seemed unmanageably large. Dr. Beno Gutenberg then made…
— Charles Francis Richter
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It is done. Once again the Fire has penetrated the earth, not with the sudden crash of thunderbolt, riving the…
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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