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

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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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People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get. – Frederick Douglass

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

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Future
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Human nature is not black and white but black and grey. – Graham Greene

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Nature

Man was natures mistake she neglected to finish him and she has never ceased paying for her mistake. – Eric Hoffer

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I am at two with nature. – Woody Allen

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Nature

Ninety percent of the students take the preferred lender. Why? Because thats the nature of the relationship. You trust the school. The school is in a position of authority. – Andrew Cuomo

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Nature

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Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall, but wise words endure. – Agnes Sybil Thorndike (1882–1976)

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Quotations

It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures. – Vincent Van Gogh

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You must be in tune with the times and prepared to break with tradition. – James Agee

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Tradition

The year 2008 was a reminder to those who had forgotten that there is such a thing as history and that the cycle of famine and feast in commerce, first identified in antiquity and well understood in the Middle Ages, was not suddenly abolished in modern times. – James Buchan

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History