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Liberty Requires Agitation


The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of earnest 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 lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters.
— Frederick Douglass, An address on West India Emancipation (1857)

 
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Posted by on August 5, 2010 in Politics

 

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Strive against Oppression


I can't believe we still have to protest this crapThe best Jihad
is to speak a just word
to an unjust ruler.

Mishkat al-Masabih, quoting Muhammad.

 
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Posted by on September 30, 2009 in Foreign Policy, Politics

 

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