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If there is no struggle, there is no progress. 
--Frederick Douglass

The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all 
concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of 
earnest struggle. If there is no struggle, there is no progress. 
Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate 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 
--Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) 

I expose slavery in this country, because to expose it is 
to kill it. Slavery is one of those monsters of darkness 
to whom the light of truth is death. 
--Frederick Douglass 

Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, 
are men who want rain without thunder and lightning. 
--Frederick Douglass (1817?-1895)