"We have to do with the past only……" — Frederick Douglass
"We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future."
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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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The future of Haiti must be linked to the respect of the rights of every single citizen.
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School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody's perfect, so why practice?
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I'm substantially concerned about the policy directions of the space agency. We have a situation in the U.S. where the…
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Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of…
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People talk about doom-laden scenarios happening in the future: they are happening in Africa now. You can see it perfectly…
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As soon as you have a language that has a past tense and a future tense you're going to say,…
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Always remember that the future comes one day at a time.
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Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason…
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Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.
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Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, 'This is a…
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What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and…
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