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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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America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future. – Frederick Douglass

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