Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. . . . The resistance encountered now predicates hope. . . . Only as we rise . . . do we encounter opposition.
Source: In Famous Black Quotations, ed. Janet Cheatham Bell, 1995.
-- Frederick Douglass, (Feb 14 1817-1895), US lecturer, author; He escaped slavery in 1838, became active in the anti-slavery cause and edited anti-slavery journal.