Issue #124: Power concedes nothing without a demand

The newsletter title is from Frederick Douglass’s “West India Emancipation” speech delivered on August 3, 1857. In it, he says:

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. Find out just what any pe…