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Frederick Douglass, in his West India Emancipation Speech of 1856, famously stated that "power concedes nothing without demand.  It never did and it never will..." It's not hard to understand why a former slave and tireless human rights advocate would have an acute sensibility to the nature of power. He was, of course, correct. Without... Continue Reading →