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«If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning.»
Author: Frederick Douglass
(Abolitionist, Author, Lecturer, Slave)
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agitation, cropped, crops, deprecate, deprecates, deprecating, favor, favoring, ground, lightning, like thunder, plowed, plowing, plows, profess, professes, professing, rain, struggle, thunder, thundered, thundering
«Without a struggle, there can be no progress.»
«The soul that is within me no man can degrade.»
«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.»
Author: Frederick Douglass
(Abolitionist, Author, Lecturer, Slave)
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Needs
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earthquake, earthquakes, like thunder, shower, storm, The Whirlwind, thunder, thundered, thundering, whirlwind, whirlwinds
«People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.»
«Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.»
Author: Frederick Douglass
(Abolitionist, Author, Lecturer, Slave)
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Society
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class, class feeling, conspiracies, conspiracy, degrade, denied, enforced, enforcing, oppress, oppresses, oppressing, organized, organized society, prevails, property, rob
«Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. . . . The resistance encountered now predicates hope. . . . Only as we rise . . . do we encounter opposition.»
«The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.»
«A man's character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him»
Author: Frederick Douglass
(Abolitionist, Author, Lecturer, Slave)
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Character
| Keywords:
hue, its color, more or less
«A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.»
Author: Frederick Douglass
(Abolitionist, Author, Lecturer, Slave)
| About:
Learning
| Keywords:
calamity
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