Freedom Quotes by Frederick Douglass
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Knowledge makes a person unfit to be a slave, according to Douglass. He writes that true freedom demands labor, suffering, and sacrifice. He also warns that those who love freedom but avoid agitation are like farmers who want crops without plowing the field.
![“We are sometimes asked in the name of patriotism to forget the merits of this fearful struggle [the Civil War], and to remember with equal admiration those who struck at the nation’s life, and those who struck to save it—those who fought for slavery, and those who fought for liberty and justice. I…” quote by Frederick Douglass](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/886/frederick-douglass-859_civil-war_we-are-sometimes-asked-in-the-name-of-pa_1761326.jpg)
