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Quote from Frederick Douglass,


"Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation,
are men who want rain without thunder and lightning. "


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

Source:

'An address on West India Emancipation' (3 August 1857), according to Frederick Douglass : Selected Speeches and Writings, p. vi 

Kindle Source:

'An address on West India Emancipation' (3 August 1857)

Categories:

Black, Courage, Defense, Freedom, Responsibility, Revolution

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