"Those who profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate agitation, are people who want crops without ploughing the ground; they want rain without the thunder and the lightning; they want the ocean without the roar of its mighty waters. The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand; it never hasand it never will."

Frederick Douglas 1857