Douglas Quotes
Douglas Quote of the day
A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be.
In the words of Frederick Douglas, power concedes nothing without a demand; it never has and it never will. We must be that demand. We are the ones we've been waiting for.
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.
This planet has — or rather had — a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much all of the time.
Frederick Douglas taught that literacy is the path from slavery to freedom. There are many kinds of slavery and many kinds of freedom, but reading is still the path.
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.
We inhabit a world in which we tend to put labels on each other and expect that we will then march through life wearing them like permanent sandwich boards.
If natural selection can create creationists it can manage a caterpillar with a face on its arse.
You turn me on.” He cups my face, brushing my hair away from my eyes and a tear off my cheek.”“God, you turn me on. You're driving me crazy. I want you to need my hands on you. Do you?
I have no life there if you're not in it. You're part of everything good I've ever done, Ryen. Please.
My eyes burn with tears, and I'm so tired. So tired of holding back everything I feel and want to say. So tired of being someone I'm not and making mistakes that I didn't have any fun making.
The framers of the constitution knew human nature as well as we do. They too had lived in dangerous days
Stories in themselves are not automatically good
It was a December night so cold and clear that the air felt like the air of the Moon - lung-burning
You are more to me than any of them has any idea
A man who stands in front of a woman does nothing more that block her view. She needs a man standing next to her.
