| Robert Wintemute, Mads Tønnesson Andenæs - 2001 - 807 pages
...there will be no discomfort to the status quo. In the words of the former slave Frederick Douglass: "If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those...profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation . . . want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. They... | |
| Janice E. Hale - 2001 - 258 pages
...as the blood that unites us." CHAPTER 8 WHITE OMLY KICK Where Uo We VJQ from Here. A Call to Action Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate...agitation, Are men who want crops without plowing the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar... | |
| Dennis A. Jacobsen - 2001 - 156 pages
...the kingdom of God into existence. We need to hear again the timeless truth of Frederick Douglass: "Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate...agitation, are men who want crops without plowing the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar... | |
| Robert Hartwell Fiske - 2002 - 404 pages
...generally requires at least a few, and often many, words, as these further examples illustrate. 1 . Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate...They want the ocean without the awful roar of its waters. FREDERICK DOUGLASS, Speech 2. I confess I love littleness almost in all things. A little convenient... | |
| Joy Hakim - 2003 - 238 pages
...fighting for freedom for the slaves, Douglass thought differently about a possible war. In 1857, he said, "Those who profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate...ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning." What do you think about his different stands on war and peace? (Deprecate means to "disapprove"; agitation... | |
| Michael S. Harper - 2002 - 412 pages
...this creature of transcendence a love-filled shadow, congealed and clarified. UPLIFT FROM A DARK TOWER "Those who profess to favor Freedom, and yet deprecate...men who want crops without plowing up the ground. . . . Power concedes nothing without a demand." — Frederick Douglass "Because in a day when the human... | |
| Cecelia Louise Hatshepsut Arrington - 2002 - 356 pages
...I have been teaching African-American history. And believe it or not, each day I am learning more. If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without... | |
| Charles D. Thompson, Jr., Melinda F. Wiggins - 2002 - 364 pages
...9 Front Slavery to Cesar Chavez and Beyond Farmworker Organizing in the United States Paul Ortiz // there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without... | |
| Kenneth C. Davis - 2009 - 717 pages
...but his stature continued to grow. In one of his most famous speeches, given in 1857, Douglass said, "Those who profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate...thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the roar of its many waters." During the Civil War, he became an adviser to Lincoln, recruiting black soldiers... | |
| Cynthia Kaufman - 2003 - 350 pages
...importance of a willingness to engage in violence: Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation are men who want crops without plowing up...the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters .... This struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, and it may be both moral and physical,... | |
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