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!CK5WZVMslk 01/30/10(Sat)20:31 No.56362  A bit of wisdom, for all the liberals out there, from a black man
"Let
me give you a word of the philosophy of reform. The whole history of
the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to
her august claims, have been born of earnest struggle. The conflict has
been exciting, agitating, all-absorbing, and for the time being,
putting all other tumults to silence. It must do this or it does
nothing. 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
lightening. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many
waters."
"This struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a
physical one, and it may be both moral and physical, but it must be a
struggle. 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 out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will
be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted
with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are
prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress."
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