"Power concedes nothing without demand."

I am passing this along as it is such a wonderful and insightful quote. It comes via a  good soul on the Phil Zone and if you are a Virgo this is for you today.
Frederick Douglass (1818-1895), a great American statesman who, after
escaping slavery, became a leader of the abolitionist movement. "Those
who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation," he said, "are
people who want crops without plowing the ground; they want rain
without thunder and lightning . . . 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."

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