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Frederick Douglass Quote - Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.

Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.

Frederick Douglass

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