Power concedes nothing
Title
Power concedes nothing
Description
Wisdom from a great leader (and suffragist):
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate agitation are men who want crops without plowing up the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning...
This struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, and it may be both moral and physical, but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will." --Frederick Douglass, Canandaigua, NY 1857
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate agitation are men who want crops without plowing up the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning...
This struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, and it may be both moral and physical, but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will." --Frederick Douglass, Canandaigua, NY 1857
Creator
Daily Suffragist
Source
Date
05/31/2020
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Citation
Daily Suffragist, “Power concedes nothing,” Daily Suffragist, accessed December 6, 2025, https://dailysuffragist.omeka.net/items/show/399.