If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
More Quotes from Frederick Douglass:
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.Frederick Douglass
A man's character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
Frederick Douglass
I could, as a free man, look across the bay toward the Eastern Shore where I was born a slave.
Frederick Douglass
A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
Frederick Douglass
You have seen how a man was made a slave you shall see how a slave was made a man.
Frederick Douglass
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 . . .
Frederick Douglass
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