Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
Power Concedes Nothing
This is from a speech given by Frederick Douglass Aug 3, 1857 at Canandaigua, New York to celebrate the anniversary of the West Indian Emancipation . It is an image of his eyes that grace the top of this page.
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It's one reason why political leaders should negotiate with their opponents, not with themselves.
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