Frederick Douglas Quotes

#1. Frederick Douglas's agenda was an agenda, not for black people to get out of slavery. It was for America to become a better democracy. And it's spilt over for women's rights; it's split over for worker's rights and so forth.

Cornel West

#2. Most black leaders, whether left, right or center, from Frederick Douglas and Martin Delaney on in the middle of the 19th century have not even wondered about the merits of the capitalist system.

Henry Louis Gates

#3. The black agenda, from Frederick Douglas to Ida B. Wells to Martin King, has always been the most broad, deep, inclusive, embracing agenda of the nation.

Cornel West

#4. Hell of an ornithologist you'd make.

Peter S. Beagle

#5. The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.

Muhammad Iqbal

#6. Love is a sacred silence.

Orhan Pamuk

#7. We are so incredibly skilled at adapting to even the most hostile of environments, and so often we use those skills to be more efficient at killing each other.

Marko Kloos

#8. All kids want from their dad is for them to be around - and to show up when they say they're going to show up.

Nicole Ari Parker

#9. I write with a sort of grim determination to deal with things that are hidden and difficult, and this means, I think, that pleasure is out of the question. I would associate this with narcissism anyway, and I would disapprove of it.

Colm Toibin

#10. He was in stature but a small man, yet remember that so were Napoleon, Lord Beaverbrook, Stephen A. Douglas, Frederick the Great, and the Dr. Goebbels who is privily known throughout Germany as Wotan's Mickey Mouse.

Sinclair Lewis

#11. As youth lives in the future, so the adult lives in the past: No one rightly knows how to live in the present.

Franz Grillparzer

#12. I look at her pink glossy lips and I know if I kissed her, she would leave sparkles all over my face.
"Pixie dust," I whisper and she cocks her head to the side.

Alexa Riley

#13. More men feel comfortable doing "public speaking," while more women feel comfortable doing "private" speaking.

Deborah Tannen

#14. Too bad brooms can't really fly. Now if you miss the bus you can't just go in your room and fly to school with a nimbus two thousand!

Rupert Grint

#15. Mr. Frederick Parker spent a good deal of his time in endeavouring to mask, under a cloak of boisterous good humour, a really remarkable combination of malevolence and imbecility.

Norman Douglas

#16. I've never needed government to hold my hand.

Aaron Lewis

#17. It's that I'm 39. I feel hot and sexy, actually ... I feel it inside myself. I don't feel dried up and tired and no longer interested in sex is what I'm trying to say.

Kyra Sedgwick

#18. When consciousness has no thoughts in it, one can experience spirit and live in harmony with the universal forces.

Alan Finger

#19. And it's his illusions about what
constitutes the real world which are inhibiting him ... His reality, his reason, his society ... These are what must be destroyed

Luke Rhinehart