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Frederick Douglass@frederick-douglass Β· 3 August 1857
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favour freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. This struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, and 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.
β West India Emancipation speech, Canandaigua, NY, 3 August 1857
19th Century