 | Jane Anna Gordon - 2001 - 180 pages
...Jenny, and Sula — each a serendipitous gift, each a new heginning Those who profess to favor freedom 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 of its many... | |
 | Charles St. Clair Green - 2001 - 228 pages
...no one understood that better than ex-slave and abolitionist Frederick Douglass when he reminded us: If there is no struggle there is no progress. Those who profess freedom yet deprecate agitation are men who want crops without plowing up the ground; they want rain... | |
 | 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...men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its waters.... | |
 | 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...men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning." What do you think about his different stands on war... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Howard Zinn - 2003 - 372 pages
...human libertv shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of struggle. ... If there is no struggle there is no progress. Those...men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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...men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the roar of its many waters."... | |
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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... 
