It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not ... -Frederick Douglass

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.

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Frederick Douglass Quotes to Explore

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men....
Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground....
One and God make a majority....
A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observat...
Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized con...
At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed....
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....
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....
Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will....
We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future....

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I mean, you always want everybody to pat you on the back and tell you you're wonderful every time you do something; I think that's human nature....
There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping o...
Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God....
For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all....
The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also....
Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature....
Each piece, or part, of the whole of nature is always merely an approximation to the complete truth, or the complete truth so far as we know it. In fa...
To such an extent does nature delight and abound in variety that among her trees there is not one plant to be found which is exactly like another; and...
To conquer nature is, in effect, to remove all natural barriers and human norms and to substitute artificial, fabricated equivalents for natural proce...
Man was nature's mistake she neglected to finish him and she has never ceased paying for her mistake....