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"It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake."
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"It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake."
Fire
"I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence."
Personal
"I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress."
Progress
"We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future."
Future
"A man's character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him."
Character
"One and God make a majority."
God
"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."
People
"The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose."
Politics
"Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe."
Society
"The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery."
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"My passions have never jumped out of the fireplace and set fire to the carpet."
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"It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake."
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Personal Development
"I always wanted to fire rays out of my fingertips."
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Personal Development
"What a couple. I'm consumed into ashes. And he's always raking up the ashes and setting them on fire again."
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Personal Development
"It takes two flints to make a fire."
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Personal Development
"It wasn't a checkpoint but a patrol which immediately opened fire after they trained their light on us."
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"You're an old-timer if you can remember when setting the world on fire was a figure of speech."
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Personal Development
"I'm cautious about using fire. It can become theatrical. I am interested in the heat, not the flames."
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Personal Development
"There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism."
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"Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course."
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