We weren't born yesterday. We are from [New York]. But we are also from somewhere else. We are from Oz, from the Looking-Glass Land, from Narnia, and from Middle Earth. If with part of ourselves we are men and women of the world and share the sad unbeliefs of the world, with a deeper part still, the part where our best dreams come from, it is as if we were indeed born yesterday, or almost yesterday, because we are also all of us children still.
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... FREDERICK TENNYSON We have no right to ask when a sorrow comes, 'Why did this happen to me?' unless we ask the same que... FREDERICK KEONIG I do my thing and you do yours. I am not in this world to live up to your expectations, and you are ... FREDERICK PERLS The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery. FREDERICK DOUGLASS A doctrine capable of being stated only in obscure and involved terms is open to reasonable suspicio... FREDERICK POLLOCK What would it profit thee to be the first
Of echoes, tho thy tongue should live forever,
A thi... FREDERICK TENNYSON Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something. FREDERICK SMITH The only real failure in life is the failure to try. FREDERICK SMITH Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are people who want crops without p... FREDERICK DOUGLASS Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plo... FREDERICK DOUGLASS Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plow... FREDERICK DOUGLASS Now whatever the origin of this apparently meaningless jumble of ideas may have been, it is really a... FREDERICK SODDY No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end faste... FREDERICK DOUGLASS Scientific research is one of the most exciting and rewarding of occupations. FREDERICK SANGER The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery. FREDERICK DOUGLASS To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of ... FREDERICK DOUGLASS My early childhood memories center around this typical American country store and life in a small Am... FREDERICK REINES It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. FREDERICK DOUGLASS It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm,... FREDERICK DOUGLASS The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion. FREDERICK DOUGLASS After taking my B.A. degree in 1939 I remained at the University for a further year to take an advan... FREDERICK SANGER Without a struggle, there can be no progress. FREDERICK DOUGLASS A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any p... FREDERICK DOUGLASS Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work. FREDERICK DOUGLASS I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other p... FREDERICK DOUGLASS I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs. FREDERICK DOUGLASS One and God make a majority. FREDERICK DOUGLASS As the chapters took shape, a change came over her. It was the double-sided recognition that this bo... FREDERICK WEISEL These hands which stretch out, implore, beg, then rise to the head in a gesture of calamity. FREDERICK LEBOYER Nature is in austere mood, even terrifying, withal majestically beautiful. FREDERICK SODDY America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the fu... FREDERICK DOUGLASS To-day it appears as though it may well be altogether abolished in the future as it has to some exte... FREDERICK SODDY I recognize the Republican party as the sheet anchor of the colored man's political hopes and th... FREDERICK DOUGLASS Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things... FREDERICK DOUGLASS It is like a voyage of discovery into unknown lands, seeking not for new territory but for new knowl... FREDERICK SANGER A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a gre... FREDERICK DOUGLASS I could, as a free man, look across the bay toward the Eastern Shore where I was born a slave. FREDERICK DOUGLASS There is not a man beneath the canopy of Heaven who does not know that slavery is wrong for him. FREDERICK DOUGLASS A good scientist is a person in whom the childhood quality of perennial curiosity lingers on. Once h... FREDERICK SEITZ I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted FREDERICK DOUGLASS In thinking of America, I sometimes find myself admiring her bright blue sky-her grand old woods-her... FREDERICK DOUGLASS The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery. FREDERICK DOUGLASS Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one clas... FREDERICK DOUGLASS But when ye come, and all the flowers are dying, If I am dead, as dead I well may be, You'... FREDERICK WEATHERLY The pure air and dazzling snow belong to things beyond the reach of all personal feeling, almost bey... FREDERICK SODDY Progress always involves risk; you can't steal second base and keep your
foot on first. FREDERICK WILCOX We will by conscious command evolve cerebral centers which will permit
us to use powers that we now ... FREDERICK TILNEY The roads we take are more important than the goals we announce. Decisions determine destiny. FREDERICK SPEAKMAN There is only one real failure in life that is possible, and that is not to
be true to the best we k... FREDERICK FARRAR Man’s power of choice enables him to think like an angel or a devil, a king or a slave. Whatever h... FREDERICK BAILES You have to edit the material. That assumes that some kind of a mind is operating in relation to the... FREDERICK WISEMAN The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery FREDERICK DOUGLASS Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any peop... FREDERICK DOUGLASS Nonsense is to sense, as shade to light; it heightens effect FREDERICK SAUNDERS People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get. FREDERICK DOUGLASS If there is no struggle, there is no progress. FREDERICK DOUGLASS Do you suffer your thoughts to tamper with evil; and to dally with wrong-doing? If so; you are not s... FREDERICK FARRAR Two men look out through the same bars: One sees the mud and one the stars. FREDERICK LANGBRIDGE