Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.

Frederick Douglass

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Power relations Fighting for justice Political progress Politics Progress

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Frederick Douglass

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English

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1857 1850s 19th century

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Black activist Abolitionist Activist Writer

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United States

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Douglass, Frederick. "West India Emancipation." 3 Aug. 1857, Canandaigua, NY, USA.

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So, loath to suffer mute,
We, peopling the void air,
Make Gods to whom to impute
The ills we ought to bear.

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Loyalty to petrified opinions never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.

Mark Twain

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Time
1884 1880s 19th century
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Twain, Mark. "Consistency." Hartford Monday Evening Club. 5 Dec. 1884, Hartford, CT, USA.

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Twain, Mark. "The Czar's Soliloquy." Collected Nonfiction of Mark Twain. Vol. 1, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2016.

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We are lovers of beauty without extravagance, and lovers of wisdom without unmanliness. Wealth is to us is not mere material for vainglory but an opportunity for achievement; and poverty we think it no disgrace to acknowledge but a real degradation to make no effort to overcome.

Pericles

Quoted in Funeral Oration, by Thucydides

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Thucydides
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Funeral Oration History of the Peloponnesian War
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Time
430 BC 430s BC 5th century BC
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Classical antiquity
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Thucydides. The History of the Peloponnesian War. c. 431 BC, bk. 2.

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