Can We Keep Our Republic quoted a pertinent insight by Frederick Douglass, a black man who suffered from racial injustice under slavery; who wrote multiple autobiographies following real achievements; who undeniably respected and was respected by Abraham Lincoln; and who was in actual fact a brilliant orator who could and did speak extemporaneously with eloquence:
Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did, and it never will. Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue till they have resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they suppress.
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