What did Frederick Douglass mean by: The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers. - Frederick Douglass Abolitionist · USA Copy
+ 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
+ Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work. Feraz Zeid, June 15, 2023December 12, 2023, Frederick Douglass, Politics, Slavery, 0 - Frederick Douglass Abolitionist · USA
+ Let us render the tyrant no aid. Feraz Zeid, October 8, 2023December 26, 2023, Frederick Douglass, Aids, Tyrants, 0 - Frederick Douglass Abolitionist · USA
+ Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable. Feraz Zeid, September 6, 2023December 24, 2023, Frederick Douglass, Important, Opportunity, Yourself, 0 - Frederick Douglass Abolitionist · USA
+ Every tone was a testimony against slavery, and a prayer to God for deliverance from chains. Feraz Zeid, January 15, 2024January 15, 2024, Frederick Douglass, Prayer, Slavery, Tone, 0 - Frederick Douglass Abolitionist · USA
+ He who is whipped oftenest, is whipped easiest. Feraz Zeid, August 5, 2023December 12, 2023, Frederick Douglass, Self-Respect, Strength, 0 - Frederick Douglass Abolitionist · USA
+ Once you learn to read, you will be forever free. Feraz Zeid, July 14, 2023December 29, 2023, Frederick Douglass, Book, Freedom, Knowledge, 0 - Frederick Douglass Abolitionist · USA
+ The destiny of the colored American … is the destiny of America. Feraz Zeid, January 15, 2024January 15, 2024, Frederick Douglass, America, Destiny, 0 - Frederick Douglass Abolitionist · USA
I’ve taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art. Explain - Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Sculptor · Ukraine
Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
The liabilities are always 100 percent good. It’s the assets you have to worry about. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
It’s stupid the way people extrapolate the past — and not slightly stupid, but massively stupid. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France