How much will you endure?
"The whole history of the progress of human 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 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 waters." -- Frederick Douglass Who is or was Frederick Douglas? He was an escaped slave, who later became an Abolitionist, an author, and the editor of the North Star and later the New National Era These penetrating words were spoken by him in an address on West India Emancipation (4 August 1857) But these were not words taken out of context. Not did he only preach about freedom on one occasion. Frederick Douglas was outspoken and a fine orator. He had been a slave, who understood a thing or two about being just out of arms reach o...