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Voice of the Day: Frederick Douglass

Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning.

- Frederick Douglass,
from his speech celebrating West India Emancipation Day, August, 1857.

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