“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 the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them.”

So here’s the question:  How come I know this quote from Frederick Douglass and, apparently, Barack Obama doesn’t? Because I have to think if he knew it, he’d heed it, instead of hoping to get along with people powerfully opposed to him.

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