 | Gregory Squires - 2011 - 252 pages
...at age 20 and another at age 40. It is called growing up. — Lawrence B. Lindsey (Lindsey 2000) // there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those...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... | |
 | Catherine Slaney - 2003 - 265 pages
...of racial discrimination of the day. CHAPTER 12 THE COUNTRY LIFE Those who profess to favour freedom yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without...ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning — Power concedes nothing without demand.1 BY THE 18705, A NUMBER of Black fugitives had returned... | |
 | Manning Marable - 2003 - 766 pages
...all-absorbing, and for the time being putting all other tumults to silence. It must do this or it does nothing. 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... | |
 | Ashton Applewhite, Tripp Evans, Andrew Frothingham - 2003 - 552 pages
...clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people. — Martin Luther King Jr. If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet renounce controversy are people who want crops without plowing the ground. — Frederick Douglass Martyrs... | |
 | Keith Gilyard - 2003 - 204 pages
...remembers from college, and as Killens himself quoted countless times during his own public career: "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 the ground. They want rain without thunder... | |
 | Paul Gordon Lauren - 2003 - 418 pages
...liherty show that all concessions yet made to her august claims have heen horn of struggle. . . . 1f 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 the ground, they want rain without thunder... | |
 | George Augustus Stallings, Jr. - 2003 - 184 pages
...struggle, as Frederick Douglass articulated so succinctly in an 1857 West India Emancipation speech: If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom yet depreciate agitation, are men who want rain without thunder. They want the ocean without the awful... | |
 | Jim Hightower - 2004 - 308 pages
...impatient that the promised land has not yet been reached? A little perspective, please: Here's the truth "If there is no struggle, there is no progress. "Those...ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. . . . "Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. . . . Men may not get... | |
 | Patrick Moore - 2004 - 270 pages
...Disobedience Manual opens with a quote from Frederick Douglass: Those who profess to favor freedom, yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without...the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical;... | |
 | David Hackett Fischer - 2005 - 880 pages
...York and Oxford, 1953), f. 173. SLAVERY ATTACKED Lihcrn for the Enslaved, Freedom for the Emaneipated Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate...ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. — FREDERICK DOUGLASS OF ALL the great reforms, the most urgent was the abolitionist movement. It... | |
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If there is no struggle there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar... 
