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.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSIt 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.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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The man who will get up will be helped up; and the man who will not get up will be allowed to stay down.
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The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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Liberty for all; chains for none.
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A man is worked on by what he works on.
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I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
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Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart; and he is relieved by them, only as an aching heart is relieved by its tears.
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Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.
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The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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A smile or a tear has no nationality; joy and sorrow speak alike to all nations, and they, above all the confusion of tongues, proclaim the brotherhood of man.
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Education means emancipation. It means light and liberty. It means the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious light of truth, the light by which men can only be made free.
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What upon Earth is the matter with the American people? Do they really covet the world’s ridicule as well as their own social and political ruin?
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Right is of no sex, Truth is of no color, God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren.
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