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ABOUTBy Chris Hedges, Truthdig.com – 14 March 2011 www.truthdig.com/report/item/power_concedes_nothing_without_a_demand_20110314/
Chris Hedges
“Let me give you a word of the philosophy of reforms,” Frederick Douglass said in 1857. “The whole history of the progress of human history shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of struggle. … 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 lightening. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. The struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or 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.”
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IOA Editor: Chris Hedges, whose speech delivery may well rival that of Frederick Douglass, will be speaking at Barnard College (New York) 6:30pm on 30 March 2011 – James Room, Barnard Hall (4th Floor). Chris’ most recent book is Death of The Liberal Class (2010). More about Chris Hedges and the lecture HERE.
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We have not heard Douglass giving a speech- nor will we ever, therefore the comparison is not fair.
@ranting: But, we have heard Chris, and he is AMAZING! Besides, “may well rival” is sufficiently flexible to cover the full range of possibilities.
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