Quote by Frederick Douglass
We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the p

We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future. – Frederick Douglass

Other quotes by Frederick Douglass

There is no Negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own constitution. – Frederick Douglass

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Black History
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A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people. – Frederick Douglass

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Learning
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Other Quotes from
Future
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It is the childs understanding that teaches the adults the way of the future. Theyre still doing it today with modern technology. – Michael Morpurgo

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Future

Cartooning is a wonderful career, and Id like more women to get to have it. I cant think of any reason why we wont see more syndicated female cartoonists in the future. – Cathy Guisewite

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Future

We need to think of the future and the planet we are going to leave to our children and their children. – Kofi Annan

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Future

No one is more important to the future of our state than our teachers. – Mike Huckabee

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Future

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I would love to go back and travel the road not taken, if I knew at the end of it I’d find the same set of grandkids. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Grandparents

Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds. – Orison Swett Marden

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Courage

Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature. – T. S. Eliot

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respect

The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the other. – Alexis de Tocqueville

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Religion