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Quote by Frederick Douglass
Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation,

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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A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people. – Frederick Douglass

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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. – Frederick Douglass

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Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity. – Karl Marx

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An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions. They seem to sense… that gold and economic freedom are inseparable. – Alan Greenspan

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I like repressed characters. That gives me a lot of freedom to make a lot of different choices through subtleties. – Jeremy Renner

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I dont believe in firing professors. They have academic freedom. – Alan Dershowitz

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