What did Frederick Douglass mean by: Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. - Frederick Douglass Abolitionist · USA Copy
+ I glory in the conflict, that I may hereafter exult in the victory. I know that victory is certain. Feraz Zeid, January 15, 2024January 15, 2024, Frederick Douglass, Conflict, Victory, 0 - Frederick Douglass Abolitionist · USA
+ The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers. Feraz Zeid, January 15, 2024January 15, 2024, Frederick Douglass, 0 - Frederick Douglass Abolitionist · USA
+ A man’s character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him. Feraz Zeid, January 15, 2024January 15, 2024, Frederick Douglass, Character, Color, 0 - Frederick Douglass Abolitionist · USA
+ What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice. Feraz Zeid, January 15, 2024January 15, 2024, Frederick Douglass, Benevolence, Justice, Pity, 0 - Frederick Douglass Abolitionist · USA
+ A man’s rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box. Feraz Zeid, January 15, 2024January 15, 2024, Frederick Douglass, Gun, Rights, 0 - Frederick Douglass Abolitionist · USA
+ Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere Feraz Zeid, June 21, 2023December 12, 2023, Frederick Douglass, Elsewhere, 0 - Frederick Douglass Abolitionist · USA
+ A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me. Feraz Zeid, January 15, 2024January 15, 2024, Frederick Douglass, Gentleman, Motivational, 0 - Frederick Douglass Abolitionist · USA
+ Right is of no sex, truth is of no color. Feraz Zeid, October 2, 2023December 26, 2023, Frederick Douglass, Color, Sex, Truth, 0 - Frederick Douglass Abolitionist · USA
The composer opens the cage door for arithmetic, the draftsman gives geometry its freedom. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
There is no Art made without power, and there is no reason for Art to be made except for power. - Gary D. Schmidt Author
The power of art is not in communication but effect; what it does, not what it relates. - Walter Darby Bannard Painter · USA
Me, rule? Me, place the State under my law, when my feeble reason no longer rules even myself! - Jean Racine Playwright · France
The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious. - Jean Rostand Biologist · France
Science had better not free the minds of men too much, before it has tamed their instincts. - Jean Rostand Biologist · France
We have dared to be free. Let us dare to be so by ourselves and for ourselves. - Jean-Jacques Dessalines Military · Haiti
Power … is not an end in itself, but is an instrument that must be used toward an end. - Jeane Kirkpatrick Political scientist and diplomat
