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“The sky and the sea invevitably meet and become one. Everywhere. Always.”
― Be With You 今会いにゆきます
― Be With You 今会いにゆきます

“If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate 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. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.”
― Frederick Douglass: Selected Speeches and Writings
― Frederick Douglass: Selected Speeches and Writings

“Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart; and he is relieved by them, only as an aching heart is relieved by its tears.”
― The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave
― The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave
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