Frederick Douglass Quotes

What to the Slave is the 4th of July.

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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As a matter of historical analysis, the relationship between secrecy and privacy can be stated in an axiom: the defense of privacy follows, and never precedes, the emergence of new technologies for the exposure of secrets.

Jill Lepore

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The man who prefers his country before any other duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every right to the state. They both deny that right is superior to authority.

John Dalberg-Acton

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In order to succeed... you have to put a stake in the ground.

Jeff Raikes

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The simple act of saying 'thank you' is a demonstration of gratitude in response to an experience that was meaningful to a customer or citizen.

Simon Mainwaring

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From a dramatic viewpoint, there are few professions that grant their members entry into other lives, high among them cops, doctors, clergymen, journalists and prostitutes. Perhaps that explains why they figure in so much television and cinema. Their lives are lived in the midst of human drama.

Roger Ebert

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My experience in childhood and adolescence of the subordinate role played by the female in a society run entirely by men had convinced me that I was not cut out to be a wife.

Rita Levi-Montalcini

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Unlike Obama and the Senate Democrats, I respect the will of Wisconsin's voters.

Ron Johnson

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I have always believed that you win fights round by round.

Miguel Cotto

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Being in the same scenes as Maggie Smith and Shirley MacLaine is something I will never forget.

Michelle Dockery

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I think I have one of the best jobs.

Josh McDaniels

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As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices and the consistent narrowness of his outlook.

Joseph Conrad

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You make a movie, and if there's a red light flashing in the distance, everyone thinks that the director had a whole lot of money and a great idea that the red light means something. Then you say, 'Yeah, we couldn't afford to shut the red light off that was broken two blocks away.'

Dito Montiel

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