Frederick Douglass on Power
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
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.
-Frederick Douglass, 1857
