Maybe you’ve heard Frederick Douglass’ line about the importance of struggle, “power concedes nothing without a demand.” Turns out there’s more to the quote – and it’s beautiful and lyrical.

Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are people who want crops without ploughing the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning; they want the ocean without the roar of its many 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 did and it never will.

Amen.