Quote by Frederick Douglass
The white mans happiness cannot be purchased by the black mans mis

The white mans happiness cannot be purchased by the black mans misery. – Frederick Douglass

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I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress. – Frederick Douglass

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Freedom
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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

Category:
Oppression
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Happiness
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Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. – Ambrose Bierce

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Happiness

With respect to the first of these obstacles, it has often been made a matter of grave complaint against Political Economists, that they confine their attention to Wealth, and disregard all consideration of Happiness or Virtue. – Nassau William Senior

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Happiness

Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives. – William Cobbett

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Happiness

There once was a demographic survey done to determine if money was connected to happiness and Ireland was the only place where this did not turn out to be true. – Fiona Shaw

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Happiness

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Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life. – Arthur Schopenhauer

Category:
Freedom

Temperament lies behind mood; behind will, lies the fate of character. Then behind both, the influence of family the tyranny of culture; and finally the power of climate and environment; and we are free, only to the extent we rise above these. – John Burroughs

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Personality

Many things grow in the garden that were never sown there. – Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732

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Gardens

I grew up in a Ukrainian Catholic-turned-Christian household, and that is my familys faith. – Vera Farmiga

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Faith