“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 the rain without thunder and lighting. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one, and 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

I found this quote on the National Park Service website, on a section commemorating Frederick Douglass. It’s funny how the heroes the state has tried to co-opt had been a big part of inspiring me to learn about socialism and anti-imperialism before I knew more.