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Frederick Douglass Quotes

Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.

Frederick Douglass

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: February 14, 1818 - February 20, 1895

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People You Measure Find Injustice

When I go in front of an audience, I'll admit I sometimes have a certain amount of fear in me, because maybe the people are not going to accept what I'm doing today. That's bad for any artist, especially if what you're doing is not in line with what's happening today.

Fear Today People Me Doing You

We don't mature momentarily, but over the long-term.

John C. Maxwell

Mature Over Long-Term Momentarily

Sugary drinks are blamed for increasing the rates of chronic disease and obesity in America. Yet efforts to reduce their consumption through taxes or other measures have gone nowhere. The beverage industry has spent millions defeating them.

America Obesity Taxes Gone Industry

You want an audience. If you didn't, you wouldn't be a writer. The biggest motivation to write is the knowledge that someone will read it.

Knowledge Motivation Someone You

All I have are my instincts. They've never failed me.

Angela Ahrendts

Me Never Instincts Failed

That's one of the great lies of intimacy, to pretend you know everything - you cannot. No matter how close you've been, over however many years, there remain secrets. I think we all know that - that you don't tell everybody everything.

Great Think You Secrets Know Matter

Congress seems drugged and inert most of the time... its idea of meeting a problem is to hold hearings or, in extreme cases, to appoint a commission.

Shirley Chisholm

Time Problem Meeting Congress Hold

As a very small boy, my passion was nature, and I had pets - cats, a dog and a bunny rabbit - and I wrote a very small book called 'My Pets,' filled with their photographs and a discussion about my pets and how much I loved them... That was my first book.

Nature Dog Passion Cats Small Book

I wouldn't say that I relax and enjoy anything. But I think my pessimism helps. I never really expect anything good to happen, so when it does, it's a nice surprise.

Good Relax Think Surprise Enjoy Say

What defines greatness is when you hold all the records and what you mean to your fans, on and off the field, because that is who ranks you as the greatest receiver of all-time. The guy that holds all the records, the guy that has set the stage for all of us, you have to give it to Jerry Rice.

Greatness You Mean Stage Rice Fans

The litmus test for whether I want to take on a role or not is usually fear. If I'm afraid of it, then I want to do it.

Fear Want Test Afraid Take Role

I've noticed that, over time, the intensity of my workouts is so high that I can get away with eating whatever I want. And I love eating a lot. So if I wanna eat more, I'll just work harder.

Work Love Time Eating I Can Want

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