A century-and-a-half ago, a former slave said this:
- "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.
- "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." (Frederick Douglass. "The Significance of Emancipation in the West Indies." 1857.)
- "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." (Frederick Douglass. "The Significance of Emancipation in the West Indies." 1857.)
Such trolls deserve what they receive.
The rest the best of us do not.
Borrowed here...
http://freedom.orlingrabbe.com/lfetimes/belief_in_freedom.htm
