"Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any..."

“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.”

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Frederick Douglass

I’ve been thinking about this quote all week—about all the ways in which oppression takes form. Hell, I do most of the heavy lifting myself these days every time I prescribe to some bullshit notion of what kind of person someone else thinks I’m supposed to be.