CM: Years ago, as the movements grew and we worked in various political and media organizations, we were fond of quoting part of an 1857 speech by Frederick Douglass, often using Ossie Davis's dramatic rendition of his famous words. They sum up a lesson that is central to what I am saying, and is at the heart of COINTELPRO 101. Many of your readers are probably familiar with it, but its essence bears repeating:
"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" If there is no struggle there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation"want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters". Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will."
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