QUOTE A DAY - Jan. 17, 2012
Greetings fellow quote lovers:A lot of MLK Jr. quotes have been flying around this week, but I wanted to go back a bit to another black man, Frederick Douglas. He was a slave who became free and a great writer orator. His words are particularly informing today as we experience our liberties eroded slowly and with little protest.
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Email Me*---- Quotes For The Week ----*The American people have this to learn: that 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 person nor property is safe.
-- Frederick Douglass
Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
--Frederick Douglass
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle.
--Frederick Douglass
**--- MYSTERY QUOTE ---**We need to proceed with our eyes wide open so that we many use technology rather than be used by it.
See at the bottom for the answer*---- More Quotes for the Week ----*I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.
-- Frederick Douglass
To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
-- Frederick Douglass
MYSTERY QUOTE AND ANSWER - DID YOU GUESS CORRECTLY?We need to proceed with our eyes wide open so that we many use technology rather than be used by it.
MYSTERY ANSWER: Neil Postman
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