Frederick Douglass Quotes
It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.
Douglass, Frederick. Oration, Delivered in Corinthian Hall, Rochester, by Frederick Douglass, July 5th, 1852. Lee, Mann & Co., 1852, p. 19.
He was even critical of Musselini for trying to maintain soimne fo the old conservative order. This quotation became of interest when in the 2017 hyperpolerized Donald Trump, one of Trumes mosot senior aides, Steve Bannion, who generally argued for radically changing most of the political rules and practices in America was discovered to have been an admirer of some of Evola's views.
Frederick Douglass was an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. After escaping from slavery in Maryland, he became a national leader of the abolitionist movement in Massachusetts and New York, becoming famous for his oratory and incisive antislavery writings. Accordingly, he was described by abolitionists in his time as a living counterexample to slaveholders' arguments that slaves lacked the intellectual capacity to function as independent American citizens. Likewise, Northerners at the time found it hard to believe that such a great orator had once been a slave.
