Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done. 6Share Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. ...
6. “Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.”- Frederick Douglass 7. “The soul that is within me no man can degrade.”– Frederick Douglass 8. “We have to do with the past only as we can make it usef...
“We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.”–Frederick Douglass “For no man who lives at all lives unto himself. He either helps or hinders all who are in anywise connected to him.”–Frederick Douglass “A man is worked upon by w...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS,Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of earnest struggle. If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and...
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(9)Frederick Douglass, speech "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?" (5th July, 1852) What have I, or those I represent, to do with your national independence? Are the great principles of political freedom and of natural justice, embodied in that Declaration of Independence, extended...