Frederick Douglass Quote

Quote from 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."

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:	Frederick Douglass, in an address on West India Emancipation (4 August 1857)
Categories:	Emancipation, History, Liberty, Progress, Responsibility, Vigilance, Wisdom
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