"Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will." ― Frederick Douglass Topic(s): Power More From Frederick Douglass "I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress." "The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery." "It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men." More In Power "What then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves, without revelation, admit the existence within you of anything but a power unknown to you of feeling and thinking."― Voltaire "To act on the belief that we possess the knowledge and the power which enable us to shape the processes of society entirely to our liking, knowledge which in fact we do not possess, is likely to make us do much harm."― Friedrich August von Hayek "Be good. Do good. The devil wields no power over a good man."― Harry Segall