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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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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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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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Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better. – Albert Einstein

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Borrow trouble for yourself, if thats your nature, but dont lend it to your neighbours. – Rudyard Kipling

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As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power. – Thomas Aquinas

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Gossip is natures telephone. – Sholom Aleichem

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