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Gary Younge

Gary Younge is a writer for The Guardian newspaper, UK. Younge can be reached at [email protected].

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Riots are a Class Act: And Often They’re the Only Alternative

By Gary Younge

This article originally appeared in The Guardian, UK. “If there is no struggle, there is no progress,” said the African American abolitionist Frederick Douglass. “Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation are men who want crops without ploughing up the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean…

This article originally appeared in The Guardian, UK. "If there is no struggle, there is no progress," said the African American abolitionist Frederick Douglass. "Those who…

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