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Frederick Douglass Social Reformer, Writer
Tree

"Everybody has asked the question, ... 'What shall we do with the Negro?' I have had but one answer from the beginning. Do nothing with us! You're doing with us has already played the mischief with us. Do nothing with us! If the apples will not remain on the tree of their own strength, ... let them fall! I am not for tying or fastening them on the tree in any way, except by nature's plan, and if they will not stay there, let them fall. And if the Negro cannot stand on his own legs, let him fall also."

Fall Tree Apples
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer Theologian
Tree

"Fruit is always the miraculous, the created; it is never the result of willing, but always a growth. The fruit of the Spirit is a gift of God, and only He can produce it. They who bear it know as little about it as the tree knows of its fruit. They know only the power of Him on whom their life depends"

Tree Growth Fruits Of The Spirit
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Betty Smith Author
Tree

"No matter where its seed fell, it made a tree which struggled to reach the sky. It grew in boarded-up lots and out of neglected rubbish heaps, and it was the only tree that grew out of cement. It grew lushly, but only in the tenements districts.... That was the kind of tree it was. It liked poor people."

People Tree Sky
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Willa Cather Novelist, Short Story Writer
Tree

"I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do."

Way Nature Tree
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Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. Physician, Poet, Essayist
Tree

"And if I should live to be The last leaf upon the tree In the spring, Let them smile, as I do now, At the old forsaken bough Where I cling."

Age Spring Tree
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Malcolm X Civil Rights Activist, Minister
Tree

"You spend so much time barking up the civil-rights tree, you don't even know there's a human-rights tree on the same floor."

Rights Tree Humans
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Tree

"In a pine tree,/ A few yards from my window sill,/ A brilliant blue jay is springing up and down, up and/ down./ On a branch./ I laugh, as I see him abandon himself/ To entire delight, for he knows as well as I do/ That the branch will not break."

Laughing Tree Blue
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Prince Charles Royalty
Tree

"My Rainforests Project ... has three main elements. Firstly, to determine how much funding the rainforest countries need to re-orientate their economies so that the trees are worth more alive than dead."

Country Three Tree
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Carl Jung Psychiatrist, Psychoanalyst
Tree

"I know that in many things I am not like others, but I do not know what I really am like. Man cannot compare himself with any other creature; he is not a monkey, not a cow, not a tree. I am a man. But what is it to be that? Like every other being, I am a splinter of the infinite deity, but I cannot contrast myself with any animal, any plant or any stone. Only a mythical being has a range greater than man's. How then can man form any definite opinions about himself?."

Men Animal Tree
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DeVon Franklin Producer, Author
Tree

"Just because you may not see this big, grand show or you may not fall down a tree and all of a sudden get miraculously healed, that doesn't mean the miraculous isn't all around you."

Mean Fall Tree
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Laozi Philosopher
Tree

"A tree that cannot bend will crack in the wind. Thus by nature's own decree, the soft and gentle are triumphant."

Wind Tree Cracks
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