Send a Quote Enter a brief message. SendOk2 “Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want rain without thunder and lightning. ” ~ Frederick Douglass [Frederick Baily] (1818-1895), escaped slave, Abolitionist, author, editor of the North Star and later the New National EraSource: 'An address on West India Emancipation' (3 August 1857), according to Frederick Douglass : Selected Speeches and Writings, p. vi