Cause and Effect

March 1981

Those who profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate agitation are men who want crops without plowing the ground.

They want rain without thunder and lightening.

They want the ocean without the awful roar of its waters.

The struggle for liberty 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.

Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or with blows or with both.

The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.

Frederick Douglass
Ex-slave and black abolitionist leader
In a speech, August 4, 1857

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