Time: Mon Jul 14 21:37:24 1997 by primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA16973; Mon, 14 Jul 1997 21:26:13 -0700 (MST) by usr01.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id VAA13746; Mon, 14 Jul 1997 21:26:03 -0700 (MST) Date: Mon, 14 Jul 1997 21:25:42 -0700 To: (Recipient list suppressed) From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar] Subject: SLS: Fredrick Douglass (fwd) <snip> > >> I need Fredrick Douglass' famous remark about the limits of >> tryanny for my quote file. Does anybody have it handy? > >"Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, >are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want >rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without >the awful roar of its waters. This struggle may be a moral one; >or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; >but it must be a struggle! 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 >until they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. >The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those >whom they oppress." > -- Fredrick Douglass, August 4, 1857. > <snip> ======================================================================== Paul Andrew Mitchell : Counselor at Law, federal witness B.A., Political Science, UCLA; M.S., Public Administration, U.C. Irvine tel: (520) 320-1514: machine; fax: (520) 320-1256: 24-hour/day-night email: [address in tool bar] : using Eudora Pro 3.0.3 on 586 CPU website: http://www.supremelaw.com : visit the Supreme Law Library now ship to: c/o 2509 N. Campbell, #1776 : this is free speech, at its best Tucson, Arizona state : state zone, not the federal zone Postal Zone 85719/tdc : USPS delays first class w/o this As agents of the Most High, we came here to establish justice. We shall not leave, until our mission is accomplished and justice reigns eternal. ======================================================================== [This text formatted on-screen in Courier 11, non-proportional spacing.]
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