 | Robert T. Carter - 2004 - 600 pages
...liberty Shows that all concessions Yet made to her august claims Have been born of earnest struggle. If there is no struggle There is no progress. Those...favor freedom, And yet deprecate agitation, Are men [and women] who want crops Without plowing up the ground, They want rain Without thunder and lightning.... | |
 | Evan Wolfson - 2007 - 258 pages
...law, quoted earlier. The second was this passage from another civil rights hero, Frederick Douglass: If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those...profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate agitation are people who want crops without plowing the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. . .... | |
 | Ronaldo Munck - 2004 - 274 pages
...liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of earnest struggle.. . 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... | |
 | David Solnit - 2004 - 516 pages
...liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of earnest struggle. ... If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation are people who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without... | |
 | Lois Benjamin - 2005 - 356 pages
...Douglass, the ex-slave, orator, and liberator, who said at a conference in Canandaigua, New York, in 1857, "If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those...ocean without the awful roar of its many waters." TO BE BLACK ISTO BE LIMITED BYTHE GLASS CEILING The Southern Christian Leadership Conference has so... | |
 | Martin Alan Greenberg - 2005 - 316 pages
...between the ordinary citizen and officers of the law had begun. The Vigilant Era From 1800 to the 18805 If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those...want crops without plowing up the ground. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. FREDERICK DOUGLASS, "The Significance of Emancipation... | |
 | Jason A. Merchey - 2005 - 321 pages
...liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of earnest struggle... If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those...deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without thunder and lightening. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. — FREDERICK... | |
 | Matt Andersson - 2005 - 404 pages
...Architecture Under Different Beliefs and Assumptions Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing...ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. .. .Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. . . . Find out just what... | |
 | James Oliver Horton - 2005 - 210 pages
...argued. Douglass argued that it was unrealistic to believe that freedom could be won without a struggle. "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... | |
 | Houghton Mifflin Company - 2005 - 540 pages
...disapproval, as in this well-known quotation from Frederick Douglass, "Those who profess to favor freedom, yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground." From here it was a small step to add the meaning "to make little of, disparage," what was once the... | |
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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... 
