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