Quote by Frederick Douglass
It is not light that we need, but fire it is not the gentle shower

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

Other quotes by Frederick Douglass

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is in an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe. – Frederick Douglass

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Oppression
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A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it. – Frederick Douglass

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great
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Other Quotes from
Nature
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I thoroughly enjoy getting away from the game and going out fishing because its so relaxing, so quiet and peaceful. I mean, theres no noise other than nature – and its so different from what I do in a tournament situation that it just eases my mind. – Tiger Woods

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Nature

Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature. – Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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Nature

Nature abhors a vacuum. – Francois Rabelais

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Nature

The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule. – Samuel Adams

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Nature

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My attachment has neither the blindness of the beginning, nor the microscopic accuracy of the close of such liaisons. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

The television, that insidious beast, that Medusa which freezes a billion people to stone every night, staring fixedly, that Siren which called and sang and promised so much and gave, after all, so little. – Ray Bradbury, The Golden Apples of the Sun

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Television

But words are things, and a small drop of ink, falling like dew, upon a thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps, millions, think. – Lord Byron, Don Juan, 1819

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Miscellaneous

It is because of men that women dislike one another. – Jean de La Bruyère, Characters, 1688

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Women