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Quote by Frederick Douglass
America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly b

America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future. – Frederick Douglass

Other quotes by 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. – Frederick Douglass

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Nature
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Frederick Douglass
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Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. – Frederick Douglass

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Freedom
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Frederick Douglass
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Other Quotes from
Future
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The Australian Governments decision to take on the dominant funding role for the entire public hospital system is designed to: end the blame game eliminate waste and to shoulder the funding burden of the rapidly rising health costs of the future. – Kevin Rudd

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Future

The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future. – John Maynard Keynes

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Future

Im just saying that at least for the foreseeable future there wont be any more touring. – Glenn Danzig

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Future

I dont just want a better deal for Britain. I want a better deal for Europe too. So I speak as British prime minister with a positive vision for the future of the European Union. A future in which Britain wants, and should want, to play a committed and active part. – David Cameron

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Future

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Jealousy is, I think, the worst of all faults because it makes a victim of both parties. – Gene Tierney

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Jealousy

If I didnt have a front-row seat on history, it was at least a seat on the aisle. – Dan Rather

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History

Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure. – Mark Strand

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Poetry

Youth is when youre allowed to stay up late on New Years Eve. Middle age is when youre forced to. – Bill Vaughan

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Age