Quote by: Frederick Douglass

Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are people who want crops without ploughing the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning; they want the ocean without the roar of its many waters. The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.


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Author Bio


  • NameFrederick Douglass
  • DescriptionAmerican social reformer, orator, writer and statesman
  • AliasesFrederick Augustus Washington Bailey
  • BornFebruary, 1818
  • DiedFebruary 20, 1895
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionJournalist; Diplomat; Writer; Autobiographer