Frederick Douglass:

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.

— Frederick Douglass Modern

Abolitionist, orator

Context

West India Emancipation Speech

Date / Period

1857

Source

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