"Power concedes nothing without a demand.
It never did and it never will.
Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them, and these will continue till they have been resisted with either words or blows, or with both.
The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they suppress."
-- Frederick Douglass
Read more about him here. He is proof that the truly great man can overcome any accident of birth to achieve success.
James Earl Jones reads one of his more notable speeches:
The good news is that he lived through to see Freedom grow and the nation live-up to many of it's ideals in ending race-based slavery. Unfortunately, much collateral damage was done in the achievement of this, leading in large part to the growth of government and gradual (and accelerating) loss of Freedoms for ALL OF US today.
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