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First Principles: Liberty Is Meaningless Where the Right To Utter One’s Thoughts and Opinions Has Ceased To Exist. That, of All Rights, Is the Dread of Tyrants
“Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants. It is the right which they first of all strike down. They know its power. … Continue reading
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Thought For the Day: You Are Not Judged By the Height You Have Risen, But From the Depth You Have Climbed
“You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.” – Frederick Douglass
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Thought For the Day: It Is Easier To Build Strong Children Than To Repair Broken Men
“It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.” – Frederick Douglass.
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Thought For the Day: Power Concedes Nothing Without A Demand. It Never Did and Never Will.
“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon … Continue reading
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Thought For the Day: We Have To Do With the Past Only As We Can Make It Useful To the Present and the Future
“We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.” – Frederick Douglass, in The Meaning of the Fourth of July For the Negro
Thought For the Day: The Limits of Tyrants Are Prescribed By the Endurance of Those Whom They Suppress
“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did, and it never will. Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and … Continue reading
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Thought For the Day: No Man Can Put A Chain About the Ankle of His Fellow Man Without At Last Finding the Other End Fastened About His Own Neck
“No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.” – Frederick Douglass (1818-1895)
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Thought For the Day: We May Explain Success Mainly By One Word and that Word Is WORK!
“We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is WORK! WORK!! WORK!!! WORK!!!! Not transient and fitful effort, but patient, enduring, honest, unremitting, and indefatigable work, into which the whole heart is put.” – Frederick Douglass (1818-1895)
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Thought For the Day: Liberty Is Meaningless Where the Right To Utter One’s Thoughts and Opinions Has Ceased To Exist
“Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants. It is the right which they first of all strike down.” – Frederick Douglass (1818-1895)
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Thought For the Day: The Limits of Tyrants Are Prescribed By the Endurance of Those Whom They Oppress
“Find out just what the people will submit to and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, … Continue reading
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