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Who would be free, themselves must strike the blow

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 the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.

People might not get all that they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all that they get.

Without a struggle, there can be no progress

The soul that is within me no man can degrade.

- Fredrick Douglass quotes from Thinkexist.com