“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
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Too often the only demand that has been heard has been from the extremists and racists. Need to change that.
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We have to add our voices, too.
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and we cannot stop demanding it –
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so true
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This is absolutely true
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Very much so
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