“Without Struggle There Is No Success”

— Frederick Douglass

Variant: Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
Source: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave and Essays

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American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman 1818–1895

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