Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass was an orator, writer and Abolitionist from Maryland who escaped slavery by going to New York.
"I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs."
"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."
"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."
"The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous."
"Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will."
"Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground."
"Without a struggle, there can be no progress."
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