Lines by Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass
American writer, orator and abolitionist · c. 1818–1895
Frederick Douglass escaped slavery in 1838 and became one of the most powerful speakers of his century. His autobiographies and speeches argued for abolition and equal rights.
If there is no struggle there is no progress.
West India Emancipation, a speech, Canandaigua, New York, 3 August 1857