If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
Douglass continues that those who favour freedom yet deprecate agitation “want crops without plowing up the ground”. He adds that the struggle may be moral, physical or both, “but it must be a struggle”.
Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim.
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
A house divided against itself cannot stand.
The rank is but the guinea’s stamp, / The Man’s the gowd for a’ that.