Frederick Douglass Quote

Quote from Frederick Douglass,

"Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are people who want crops without ploughing the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning; they want the ocean without the roar of its many waters. The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand; it never has and it never will."

By:	Frederick Douglass (more quotes by Frederick Douglass or books by/about Frederick Douglass)
	[Frederick Baily] (1818-1895), escaped slave, Abolitionist, author, editor of the North Star and later the New National Era
Categories:	Freedom, Perseverance, Power, Responsibility, Vigilance
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