"A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me."

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"Democracy, freedom and liberty do not make us more than what we are; it is our commitment that matters."

M.F. Moonzajer, Afghan Author

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"You don't necessarily need atomic bombs to destroy a nation. Politicians who value their pockets than the life of citizens always do that every day."

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

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"We are a little land. And little lands on the borders of a great empire were always hateful to the lords of the great empire. He longs to blot them out, gobble them up."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"It is an axiom in my mind, that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves, and that too of the people with a certain degree of instruction. This it is the business of the State to effect, and on a general plan."

Thomas Jefferson, American President

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"Canada remains alienated from its allies, shut out of the reconstruction process to some degree, unable to influence events. There is no upside to the position Canada took."

Stephen Harper, Canadian Politician

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"Russia itself having turned to socialist realism - no-man's-land between surrealism and communism."

John Fowles, English Novelist

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"A market where chief executive officers make 262 times that of the average worker and 821 times that of the minimum-wage worker is not a market that is working well. And it is surely not working well enough to build a solid middle class."

Marcy Kaptur, American Politician

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"It would seem that the Watergate story from beginning to end could be used as a primer on the American political system."

Bob Woodward, American Journalist

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"Sadly, the President's budget proposal for the upcoming year once again puts cutting taxes for the wealthiest Americans over addressing our country's severe fiscal problems."

Carl Levin, American Politician

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"Since its first day as a nation, Israel has lived under a cloud of aggression from militant extremists and hostile neighboring governments."

John Boehner, American Politician

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"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

"At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed."

Time

"Fugitive slaves were rare then, and as a fugitive slave lecturer, I had the advantage of being the first one out."

Being

"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

"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."

Politics

"Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will."

Power

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"Democracy, freedom and liberty do not make us more than what we are; it is our commitment that matters."

"You don't necessarily need atomic bombs to destroy a nation. Politicians who value their pockets than the life of citizens always do that every day."

"We are a little land. And little lands on the borders of a great empire were always hateful to the lords of the great empire. He longs to blot them out, gobble them up."

"It is an axiom in my mind, that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves, and that too of the people with a certain degree of instruction. This it is the business of the State to effect, and on a general plan."

"Canada remains alienated from its allies, shut out of the reconstruction process to some degree, unable to influence events. There is no upside to the position Canada took."

"Russia itself having turned to socialist realism - no-man's-land between surrealism and communism."

"A market where chief executive officers make 262 times that of the average worker and 821 times that of the minimum-wage worker is not a market that is working well. And it is surely not working well enough to build a solid middle class."

"It would seem that the Watergate story from beginning to end could be used as a primer on the American political system."

"Sadly, the President's budget proposal for the upcoming year once again puts cutting taxes for the wealthiest Americans over addressing our country's severe fiscal problems."

"Since its first day as a nation, Israel has lived under a cloud of aggression from militant extremists and hostile neighboring governments."

Explore more quotes by Frederick Douglass

"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."

"At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed."

"Fugitive slaves were rare then, and as a fugitive slave lecturer, I had the advantage of being the first one out."

"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."

"The soul that is within me no man can degrade."

"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."

"What to the Slave is the 4th of July."

"I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs."

"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."

"Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will."