Frederick Douglass Quotes
It is not true that the Republican party has not endeavored to protect the negro in his right to vote. The whole moral power of the party has been, from first to last, on the side of justice to the negro; and it has only been baffled, in its efforts to protect the negro in his vote, by the Democratic party.
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The problem that I think is reasonable to assert about Fox and its coverage is that they make up stories out of whole cloth and then make a big deal out of them.
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We are living in difficult times. There are a lot of people out of work - am I going to stand there and whinge? No, because I am lucky to have such a wonderful job.
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I love being a part of country music. I love going out and... doing things for the first time for country music. I always enjoy that.
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Age has been the perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth.
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I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
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Alternate history fascinates me, as it fascinates all novelists, because 'What if?' is the big thing.
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Charity is a very personal equation, like we say charity begins at home. It starts with your immediate help in the house: the people who work for you.
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To me, music is no joke and it's not for sale.
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A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
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I came from Yale, where you get an extracurricular degree in self-importance because you went there. When AIDS happened, I was treated like an outcast. And I don't like that feeling.
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'Where is your million-dollar shirt?' I'm like, 'It's underneath these $25 Hanes T-shirts I've got on.'
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Since the end of the Cold War, metropolitan elites everywhere have identified progress and modernity with the cornucopia of global capitalism, the consolidation of liberal democratic regimes and the secular ethic of consumerism.
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The imperial province should have a university, the prefectures should have colleges, and the counties should have day schools.
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For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
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Most of the big banks were shot through with short-termism, deceptive practices and self-dealing. We must institute basic changes in corporate governance and in management practice to restore responsibility and honesty for the sake of the economy and for the self-respect of the country.
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St. Louis sprawls where mighty rivers meet - as broad as Philadelphia, but three stories high instead of two, with wider streets and dirtier atmosphere, over the dull-brown of wide, calm rivers. The city overflows into the valleys of Illinois and lies there, writhing under its grimy cloud.
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No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.
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I like having a bunch of different experiences. I don't want to do just one thing for the rest of my life.
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It's always a wake-up call to get beaten.
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Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit.
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Why should I stop working? If I do, I'll die and it'll all be finished. 'm lucky to work in the most perfect of conditions. I can do what I want in all kinds of areas. The expenses are not expenses. I would be stupid to stop that. Work is making a living out of being bored.
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If we are to keep our democracy, there must be one commandment: Thou shalt not ration justice.
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We make versions, and true versions make worlds.
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It is not true that the Republican party has not endeavored to protect the negro in his right to vote. The whole moral power of the party has been, from first to last, on the side of justice to the negro; and it has only been baffled, in its efforts to protect the negro in his vote, by the Democratic party.
