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Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.

Karl Marx

The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte

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Marx, Karl. "Der 18te Brumaire des Louis Napoleon [The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon]." Die Revolution [The Revolution], 1852.

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Marx, Karl. "The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon." The Political Writings, edited by David Fernbach. Verso, 2019.

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It is not light that is needed, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake. The feeling of the nation must be quickened; the conscience of the nation must be roused; the propriety of the nation must be startled; the hypocrisy of the nation must be exposed; and its crimes against God and man must be proclaimed and denounced.

Frederick Douglass

What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?

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Douglass, Frederick. Speech to the Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society. 5 July 1852, Corinthian Hall, Rochester, NY, USA.

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Douglass, Frederick. "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? An Address." Frederick Douglass: Speeches & Writings, edited by David W. Blight. Library of America, 2022.

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What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer; a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham.

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Douglass, Frederick. "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?" Independence Day Celebration. 5 July 1852, Corinthian Hall, Rochester, NY, USA.

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Douglass, Frederick. "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?" Frederick Douglass: Speeches & Writings, edited by David W. Blight. Library of America, 2022.

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The man who is right is a majority. He who has God and conscience on his side, has a majority against the universe. Though he does not represent the present state, he represents the future state. If he does not represent what we are, he represents what we ought to be.

Frederick Douglass

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Douglass, Frederick. "The Fugitive Slave Law." National Free Soil Convention. 11 Aug. 1852, Pittsburg, PA, USA.

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Douglass, Frederick. "The Fugitive Slave Law." The Essential Douglass: Selected Writings and Speeches. Hackett Publishing Company, 2016.

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Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves, but under circumstances directly encountered, given and transmitted from the past. The tradition of all the dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living.

Karl Marx

The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte

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Marx, Karl. "Der 18te Brumaire des Louis Napoleon [The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon]." Die Revolution [The Revolution], 1852.

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Marx, Karl. "The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon." The Political Writings, edited by David Fernbach. Verso, 2019.

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So, loath to suffer mute,
We, peopling the void air,
Make Gods to whom to impute
The ills we ought to bear.

Matthew Arnold

Empedocles on Etna

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Arnold, Matthew, [published as A]. "Empedocles on Etna." Empedocles on Etna, and Other Poems. London: B. Fellowes, 1852, act 1, sc. 2.

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Who order'd, that their longing's fire
Should be, as soon as kindled, cool'd?
Who renders vain their deep desire?
A God, a God their severance rul'd!
And bade betwixt their shores to be
The unplumb'd, salt, estranging sea.

Matthew Arnold

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Arnold, Matthew, [published as A]. "To Marguerite." Empedocles on Etna, and Other Poems. London: B. Fellowes, 1852, st. 4.

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The Sultan asked for a Signet motto, that should hold good for Adversity or Prosperity. Solomon gave him, "This also shall pass away."

Edward FitzGerald

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Fitzgerald, Edward. Polonius: A Collection of Wise Saws and Modern Instances. London: William Pickering, 1852.

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What I did that was new was to prove... That the class struggle necessarily leads to the dictatorship of the proletariat.

Karl Marx

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Marx, Karl. Letter to Joseph Weydemeyer. 5 Mar. 1852.

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Marx, Karl. "Marx to Joseph Weydemeyer. 5 Mar. 1852." Marx & Engels Collected Works. Vol. 39, International Publishers, 1983.

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Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.

Florence Nightingale

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Nightingale, Florence. Cassandra: An Essay. c. 1852.

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Nightingale, Florence. "Cassandra." Cassandra: Florence Nightingale's Angry Outcry Against the Forced Idleness of Victorian Women. The Feminist Press, 1993.

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You profess to believe "that, of one blood, God made all nations of men to dwell on the face of all the earth," and hath commanded all men, everywhere, to love one another; yet you notoriously hate (and glory in your hatred) all men whose skins are not colored like your own!

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Douglass, Frederick. "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?" Independence Day Celebration. 5 July 1852, Corinthian Hall, Rochester, NY, USA.

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Douglass, Frederick. "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?" Frederick Douglass: Speeches & Writings, edited by David W. Blight. Library of America, 2022.

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Thou hast no right to bliss.

Matthew Arnold

Empedocles on Etna

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Arnold, Matthew, [published as A]. "Empedocles on Etna." Empedocles on Etna, and Other Poems. London: B. Fellowes, 1852, act 1, sc. 2.

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And long we try in vain to speak and act
Our hidden self, and what we say and do
Is eloquent, is well—but 'tis not true.

Matthew Arnold

The Buried Life

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Arnold, Matthew, [published as A]. "The Buried Life." Empedocles on Etna, and Other Poems. London: B. Fellowes, 1852, l. 64.

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Arnold, Matthew. "The Buried Life." Dover Beach and Other Poems. Dover Publications, 2012, I. 64.

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Resolve to be thyself: and know, that he
Who finds himself, loses his misery.

Matthew Arnold

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Arnold, Matthew, [published as A]. "Self-Dependence." Empedocles on Etna, and Other Poems. London: B. Fellowes, 1852, l. 31.

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The Day in its hotness,
The strife with the palm;
The Night in its silence,
The Stars in their calm.

Matthew Arnold

Empedocles on Etna

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Arnold, Matthew, [published as A]. "Empedocles on Etna." Empedocles on Etna, and Other Poems. London: B. Fellowes, 1852, act 2.

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Tis not the dying for a faith that's so hard, Master Harry-every man of every nation has done that-'tis the living up to it that's difficult.

William Makepeace Thackeray

The History of Henry Esmond

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Thackeray, William Makepeace. The History of Henry Esmond, Esq., A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1852, bk. 1, ch. 6.

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