Power concedes nothing without 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 this 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. —Frederick Douglass More about this quote Tags: justice power wrong tyranny resistance demands submission Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
To say that there is a case for heroes is not to say that there is a case for hero worship. The surrender of decision, the unquestioning submission to leadership, the prostration of the average man before the Great Man — these are the diseases of heroism, and they are fatal to human dignity. . . . History amply shows that it is possible to have heroes without turning them into gods. And history shows, too, that when a society, in flight from hero worship, decides to do without great men at all, it gets into troubles of its own. —Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. More about this quote Tags: history society heroism dignity leadership surrender decision submission hero worship Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar. —Helen Keller More about this quote Tags: submission soar consent Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Getting a living under capitalism . . . is so precarious, so uncertain, fraught with such pain and struggle that the wonder is not that so many people become vicious and criminal, but that so many remain in docile submission to such a tyrannous and debasing condition. —Eugene V. Debs More about this quote Tags: wonder fear money pain crime doubt capitalism struggle submission Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email