If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom yet depreciate agitation, are men who want rain without thunder. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters . . .
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People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
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Whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only increased my desire to be free, and set me to thinking of plans to gain my freedom.
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