"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."
-Frederick Douglass
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"At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.“
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"Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work."
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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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"Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will."
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"Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground."
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"Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe."
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"Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire."
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