I could, as a free man, look across the bay toward the Eastern Shore where I was born a slave.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one clas...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plo...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of ...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery
FREDERICK DOUGLASS Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS I recognize the Republican party as the sheet anchor of the colored mans political hopes and the ark...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS I knew that however bad the Republican party was, the Democratic party was much worse. The elements ...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS A man's character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him
FREDERICK DOUGLASS A man's character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about hi...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS I dwell mostly upon the religious aspects, because I believe it is the religious people who are to b...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS When men sow the wind it is rational to expect that they will reap the whirlwind.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS Slaves were expected to sing as well as to work. A silent slave was not liked, either by masters or ...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS Fellow-citizens, pardon me, allow me to ask, why am I called upon to speak here to-day? What have I,...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS There is not a man beneath the canopy of Heaven who does not know that slavery is wrong for him.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things nee...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want rain without thun...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any peop...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other p...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS Everybody has asked the question, and they learned to ask it early of the abolitionists, 'What s...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS If there is no struggle there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate a...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS Experience proves that those are oftenest abused who can be abused with the greatest impunity. Men ...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS Whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only increased my ...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and w...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS I expose slavery in this country, because to expose it is to kill it. Slavery is one of those monste...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS [Y]our national greatness, swelling vanity; your denunciation of tyrants, brass-fronted impudence; y...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS Fugitive slaves were rare then, and as a fugitive slave lecturer, I had the advantage of being the f...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS The chance is now given you to end in a day the bondage of centuries, and to rise in one bound from ...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the fu...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS I recognize the Republican party as the sheet anchor of the colored man's political hopes and th...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than t...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are people who want crops without p...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS Power concedes nothing without a demand.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS ...I therefore hate the corrupt, slaveholding, women-whipping, cradle-plundering, partial and hypocr...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me
FREDERICK DOUGLASS Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, o...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS Though the colored man is no longer subject to be bought and sold, he is still surrounded by an adve...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS In thinking of America, I sometimes find myself admiring her bright blue sky — her grand old woods...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plow...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to an...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm,...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS One and God make a majority.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted
FREDERICK DOUGLASS No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end faste...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS That which is inhuman cannot be divine.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS If there is no struggle there is no progress.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS For it is not light that is needed, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the ...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS ...I have sometimes thought that the mere hearing of those songs would do more to impress some minds...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS I may be deemed superstitious, and even egotistical, in regarding this event as a special interposit...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS I recognize the Republican party as the sheet anchor of the colored man's political hopes and the ar...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. . . . The resistance encountered now predicates hope....
FREDERICK DOUGLASS What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July?

I answer: a day that reveals to him,...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one clas...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plow...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any p...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS In thinking of America, I sometimes find myself admiring her bright blue sky-her grand old woods-her...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a gre...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS A man without force, is without the essential dignity of humanity. Human nature is so constituted, ...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any ...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS The American people have this to learn: that where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, whe...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciat...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other p...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and deprecate agi...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS We had talked long enough; we were now ready to move; if not now, we never should be; and if we did ...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS A man is worked upon by what he works on. He may carve out his circumstances, but his circumstances ...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS Whether we turn to the declarations of the past, or to the professions of the present, the conduct o...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS Truth in science is always determined from observational facts.
DAVID DOUGLASS The worst thing that you want out of a situation like this is the perception that you're gouging due...
BILL DOUGLASS We just had a two-week period there with our best margins in two years.
BILL DOUGLASS When it came time to go to college, I had been accepted for Harvard when my father was offered the p...
DOUGLASS NORTH This bill will set a new minimum, and the minimum becomes the zero step on the salary schedule.
DALE DOUGLASS We know she's a good kid and a good student. Before we even talked about basketball, I decided she w...
CRAIG DOUGLASS I was blessed. I called upon the Lord and he saved me. He put the right people in the right place to...
DOUGLASS YOUNG We're not anticipating they're going to rule against us. We haven't really considered that at this p...
DEXTER DOUGLASS However, the models also predict unambiguously that the atmosphere is warming faster than the surfac...
DAVID DOUGLASS One finds the truth by making a hypothesis and comparing observations with the hypothesis.
DAVID DOUGLASS While I was there I became deeply interested in photography, and indeed the most noteworthy event in...
DOUGLASS NORTH That's somewhat less a draw than it used to be because of the superb modern communications that we h...
JOHN DOUGLASS The issue is going to be what is the impact on the salary schedule? Is the rest of the scale going t...
DALE DOUGLASS The secretary did not exercise her discretion lawfully in the manner contemplated by this court's di...
DEXTER DOUGLASS I yelled to the others, 'Run to the back, run to the back.'
DOUGLASS YOUNG It is absolutely essential that one should be neutral and not fall in love with the hypothesis.
DAVID DOUGLASS I learned to fly an airplane, and had my own airplane during the 1960s.
DOUGLASS NORTH I was opposed to World War II, and indeed on June 22, 1941 when Hitler invaded the Soviet Union I su...
DOUGLASS NORTH My wife and I now live in the summers in northern Michigan in an environment which is wonderfully co...
DOUGLASS NORTH Her ruling on the request came only seven hours after the deadline for submission, before counties h...
DEXTER DOUGLASS Indeed, scientific truth by consensus has had a uniformly bad history.
DAVID DOUGLASS I don't see that she's the type of player who's going to sit on the bench her entire freshman year. ...
CRAIG DOUGLASS We've used different bread recipes, and some of them have been passed from other teachers.
DELPHINE DOUGLASS It feels really good to know we're giving them good food to grow on.
DELPHINE DOUGLASS I took one step behind the register where the wall was at. When I picked up my other foot, one of th...
DOUGLASS YOUNG We take these very seriously because it is upsetting to all of us within recruiting command, because...
DOUGLASS SMITH As an example, you need to have a high school diploma in order to receive the Army College Fund, and...
DOUGLASS SMITH Recruiting is a tough mission, but it's a mission that can be achieved working within the regulation...
DOUGLASS SMITH What the war did was give me the opportunity of three years of continuous reading, and it was in the...
DOUGLASS NORTH Self-defense is the clearest of all laws, and for this reason: lawyers didn't make it.
DOUGLASS JERROLD To see these power lines right next to you as you paddle down the river, you might think twice about...
BILL DOUGLASS My early work and publications centered around expanding on the analysis of life insurance in my dis...
DOUGLASS NORTH I kept knocking with my fist.
DOUGLASS YOUNG That's somewhat less a draw than it used to be because of the superb modern communications that we h...
JOHN DOUGLASS There was a great photo of the four of them afterward. George had a huge grin on his face, and the o...
DALE DOUGLASS If the facts are contrary to any predictions, then the hypothesis is wrong no matter how appealing.
DAVID DOUGLASS I’M LOSING FAITH IN MY FAVORITE COUNTRY

Throughout my life, the United States has been ...
STEPHEN DOUGLASS Bobby, I know I just shot a 72, but I've had a fantastic and rewarding life and now I'm going out to...
DALE DOUGLASS It's intruding on the local collective bargaining process by enforcing a base salary that wasn't arr...
DALE DOUGLASS I had hoped to go to law school, but the war started, and because of the strong feeling that I did n...
DOUGLASS NORTH The first thing to be disrupted by our commitment to nonviolence will be not the system but our own ...
JAMES DOUGLASS It is disappointing and embarrassing to the science profession that some Nobel Laureates would delib...
DAVID DOUGLASS I went back to graduate school with the clear intention that what I wanted to do with my life was to...
DOUGLASS NORTH I would be remiss if I left the impression that my life has been totally preoccupied with scholarly ...
DOUGLASS NORTH Our family life was certainly not intellectual.
DOUGLASS NORTH As we are going through this crisis, the fundamental laws of economics tend to apply forcefully - if...
BILL DOUGLASS This dislocation in the Gulf is not going to go away quickly, ... For the marketer, it's a nightmare...
BILL DOUGLASS There was a great photo of the four of them afterward. George had a huge grin on his face, and the o...
DALE DOUGLASS The development of a political-economic framework to explore long-run institutional change occupied ...
DOUGLASS NORTH We are aware of the situation. The bulletin was released in January and we've been working to try to...
RICHARD DOUGLASS It's good to be associated with this kind of action, this kind of heroism.
JOHN DOUGLASS I went to elementary school in Ottawa, and then to a private secondary school.
DOUGLASS NORTH He kids me about that all the time. He claims it's his putter. It isn't.
DALE DOUGLASS That's the main thing about him. He's a great dad and great granddad.
DALE DOUGLASS This is probably not going to meet muster. That seems so preferential that it doesn't seem to me tha...
DEXTER DOUGLASS My wife always wanted a front porch.
CRAIG DOUGLASS It was not until I got my first job, at the University of Washington in Seattle, and began playing c...
DOUGLASS NORTH A variety of vegetables arrive on soup day.
DELPHINE DOUGLASS It's not just our interest in giving children quality nutrition because they deserve it. For childre...
DELPHINE DOUGLASS As a physicist, I can state that none of the 18 physicists who signed the Statement works in this fi...
DAVID DOUGLASS I continue to be a photographer; I have enjoyed fishing and hunting with a close friend; and have ow...
DOUGLASS NORTH My record at the University of California as an undergraduate was mediocre to say the best.
DOUGLASS NORTH My father had not even completed high school when he started as an office boy working for the Metrop...
DOUGLASS NORTH My brother and sister are both older than I am and were born before my father went off to World War ...
DOUGLASS NORTH The mountain is passed; now we shall get on better. [Fr., La montagne est passee; nous irons mieux...
FREDERICK, THE GREAT (FREDERICK II) A good scientist is a person in whom the childhood quality of perennial curiosity lingers on. Once h...
FREDERICK SEITZ These hands which stretch out, implore, beg, then rise to the head in a gesture of calamity.
FREDERICK LEBOYER If you keep working at it, in the last analysis, you win. They've got to kill us a hundred times. Al...
FREDERICK SMITH I do my thing and you do yours. I am not in this world to live up to your expectations, and you are ...
FREDERICK PERLS What would it profit thee to be the first Of echoes, tho thy tongue should live forever, A thi...
FREDERICK TENNYSON Man’s power of choice enables him to think like an angel or a devil, a king or a slave. Whatever h...
FREDERICK BAILES They're all movies. I've always just done whatever interested me and this interested me. I never fel...
FREDERICK WISEMAN But when ye come, and all the flowers are dying,
If I am dead, as dead I well may be,
You'...
FREDERICK WEATHERLY "Kill Japs, Kill Japs, Kill more Japs!'
ADMIRAL FREDERICK There are no great men. Just great challenges which ordinary men,out of necessity, are forced by cir...
ADMIRAL FREDERICK It goes back to the Greeks. Plato was an idealist, Aristotle was a materialist.
JENNIFER FREDERICK The president underscored his support for Iraq's efforts to build a government of national unity.
FREDERICK JONES Music is an outburst of the soul.
FREDERICK DELIUS Brain cells create ideas. Stress kills brain cells. Stress is not a good idea.
FREDERICK SAUNDERS They're all movies. I've always just done whatever interested me and this interested me. I never fel...
FREDERICK WISEMAN When you remember me, it means that you have carried something of who I am with you, that I have lef...
FREDERICK BUECHNER I have observed this in my experience of slavery, that whenever my condition was improved, instead o...
FREDERICK DOUGLAS It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
FREDERICK DOUGLAS our royalties ? could be as high as 10 percent of total system prices.
FREDERICK WARREN "Little magazines" are, for the most part, the mayflies of the literary world.
FREDERICK CREWS The British have always coped without becoming a dictatorship.
FREDERICK FORSYTH FDX Corp. is benefiting from the accelerated move to fast-cycle production and distribution methods,...
FREDERICK SMITH This strategic investment in the long-term growth of China will broaden and deepen our relationship ...
FREDERICK SMITH But what sin is to the moralist and crime to the jurist so to the scientific man is ignorance.
FREDERICK SODDY In honesty you have to admit to a wise man that prayer is not for the wise, not for the prudent, not...
FREDERICK BUECHNER The student of history knows no more refreshing recreation than that of nailing liars, like vermin, ...
FREDERICK ROLFE There is a fragrance in the air, a certain passage of a song, an old photograph falling out from the...
FREDERICK BUECHNER Laugh till you weep. Weep till there’s nothing left but to laugh at your weeping. In the end it’...
FREDERICK BUECHNER It is my opinion that enjoying yourself in the present and loosening your definition of time slows t...
FREDERICK DODSON Our girls knew what they had to do tonight. We did ourselves a favor tonight.
LYNN FREDERICK The Internet offers authors and their readers a new diversity of opportunities and freedom.
FREDERICK FORSYTH There is only one real happiness in life, and that is the happiness of creating.
FREDERICK DELIUS I was broken in body, soul, and spirit. My natural elasticity was crushed, my intellect languished, ...
FREDERICK DOUGLAS So far I go with the Socialists as to think it a pretty general rule that, where monopoly is necessa...
FREDERICK POLLOCK At first, he talked about the flowers in the garden behind his country house in Surrey. His voice st...
FREDERICK WEISEL He could have been a great weapon. We didn't give him the opportunity to show what he could do.
CRAIG FREDERICK This is not the agreement that they signed. We will give them some time to reflect upon what they ag...
FREDERICK JONES China is changing the world's economic landscape, and FedEx has been part of this great change since...
FREDERICK SMITH Anybody whose mind is functioning at all can't be content with the way the world works.
FREDERICK WISEMAN My goal is to make as many films as possible about different aspects of American life.
FREDERICK WISEMAN quite a wild ride. It was great to be with the play as it progressed, and to see all the different f...
FREDERICK WELLER [He was cast as Officer Johnny Sandowski in the 1993-94 ABC series,] Missing Persons. ... Daniel J. ...
FREDERICK WELLER We are still seeing buying of interest-rate-sensitive stocks. Investors believe the U.S. economy is ...
FREDERICK TSANG Money doesn't make Dr. Rudolph tick. What makes Dr. Rudolph tick, what drives him, is unfairness in ...
FREDERICK THIEMAN clean-sweep whole neighborhoods, in the name of 'health' and 'safety' and 'a great future' and all t...
FREDERICK STARR Both of these names remain less exposed to some of the adverse trends within the industry.
FREDERICK SEARBY Yesterday was very frightening. It felt like maybe the bubble was bursting on the Internet stocks. I...
FREDERICK MORAN