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“If there is no struggle, there is no progress.”
Douglass rejects the expectation that entrenched injustice yields without sustained pressure and effort.
Source note: Speech in Canandaigua, New York, August 3, 1857.
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“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.”
The line argues that meaningful reform usually requires explicit demands rather than passive hope that power will surrender itself.
Source note: Speech in Canandaigua, New York, August 3, 1857.