- McLibel -

Overheard before the war...

Posted by: The Everett Citizen ( IWW, One Big Union ) on October 25, 1997 at 04:01:42:

"Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are people who want crops without ploughing the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning; they want the ocean without the roar of its waters... Power concedes nothing without a demand; it never has and it never will."

Frederick Douglass, 1857

Agitate!




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