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If There Is No Struggle There Is No Progress

Thanks to the internet, it was very easy to look up the source of Frederick Douglass’ famous quote about “Those who profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate agitation”. It’s from an 1857 speech on the anniversary of the abolition of slavery in the West Indies. The speech is a great short read.

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