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Frederick Douglass Quotes

Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.

Frederick Douglass

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Freedom Men Want Without Ground Up

There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.

Man Advice Bad Earth Will Take

I've discovered I can't make a film about people I dislike.

People Dislike Film Make About

The old system, the War on Drugs, was a train wreck.

John Hickenlooper

War Train Old System War On Drugs

Who wants to broadcast the news that he's bought a can of Sprite? And who wants to see that on a News Feed?

News See Feed Who He Wants

I like the competition that Nextel Cup gives us. The schedule is difficult. But this is something I want to do for sure.

Competition Want Schedule Difficult

A presidential debate is a job interview. And voters look for certain traits in people applying to be president.

Job People Look Debate President

My struggle over the years has constantly been, it only takes 10 minutes, or an average shower, to come up with a mini-series or two, but it takes a year to draw them. So for me, it's been just trying to find a way to get all these ideas and all these incidents on paper.

Struggle Me Ideas Trying Year Find

I wish everybody in the Republican Party had rejected Mr. Trump and chosen someone else.

Someone Wish Party I Wish Republican

In Newark, we see a problem and want to seize it, but we run up against the wall of state government, the wall of federal government that does not have the flexibility or doesn't see problems, even. At the federal level, it's often a zero-sum game: If you win, I lose. At the local level, it's just not local that. It's win-win-win.

Government Win Game Problems Problem

We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Success Regret Feel Friends Look

Of all the arguments against voluntary euthanasia, the most influential is the 'slippery slope': once we allow doctors to kill patients, we will not be able to limit the killing to those who want to die.

Die Want Will Limit Against Able

It's hard for me to say that what I'm doing isn't even really music, because deep inside of me, what I want to do is much greater than music.

Music Me Deep Doing Say Want

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