Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.
(West India Emancipation Speech, 1857)
Frederick Douglass
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Once you learn to read, you will forever be free. 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. If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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