It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.
(Speech in New York, 1852)
Frederick Douglass
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Once you learn to read, you will forever be free. We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future. If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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