We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.

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• Frederick Douglass:

  I could, as a free man, look across the bay toward the Eastern Shore where I was born a slave.

• Frederick Douglass:

  Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plo

• Frederick Douglass:

  Everybody has asked the question, and they learned to ask it early of the abolitionists, 'What shal

• Frederick Douglass:

  There is not a man beneath the canopy of Heaven who does not know that slavery is wrong for him.

• Frederick Douglass:

  Experience demonstrates that there may be a wages of slavery only a little less galling and crushin

• Maxim Gorky:

  One has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn't marry a girl of twenty.

• Maxim Gorky:

  Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once

• Maxim Gorky:

  The most beautiful words in the English language are 'not guilty'.

• Maxim Gorky:

  Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children.

• Maxim Gorky:

  When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.