"Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will." ― Frederick Douglass Topic(s): Power More From Frederick Douglass "Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground." "It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men." "The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous." More In Power "Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power."― Horace Mann "In the state of nature profit is the measure of right."― Thomas Hobbes "Sometimes power is all a person has, so they will protect it even unto their own destruction, for without power they have nothing."― Bryant H. McGill