A PHILOSOPHY OF REFORMS, AS FAST AS POSSIBLE

IF THERE IS NO STRUGGLE

THERE IS NO PROGRESS

THOSE WHO PROFESS TO FAVOR FREEDOM

AND YET DEPRECIATE AGITATION

ARE THOSE WHO WANT CROPS
WITHOUT PLOWING THE GROUND.

THEY WANT RAIN WITHOUT
THUNDER AND LIGHTENING.

THEY WANT THE OCEAN

WITHOUT THE AWFUL ROAR

OF ITS MANY WATERS.

POWER CONCEDES NOTHING

WITHOUT A DEMAND.

-frederick douglass