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Frederick Douglass1817–1895

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.

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West India Emancipation (If There Is No Struggle, There Is No Progress) (1857)

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