On My Birthday
13/06/03 10:42 Filed by Saswat Pattanayak in:
Memories
| Political
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“If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those
who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate
agitation are people who want crops without plowing
up the ground. They want rain without thunder and
lightning. That struggle might be a moral one; it
might be a physical one; it might be both moral and
physical, but it must be a struggle. Power concedes
nothing without a demand. It never did and never
will. People might not get all that they work for in
this world, but they must certainly work for all they
get
.” —Frederick Douglass
Tags: Saswat, Activism, Black Power