Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
Frederick Douglass
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More quotes by Frederick Douglass
- If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
- I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.
- Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
- America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future.
- We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.