They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the roar of its mighty waters. The 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 has and it never will. Frederick Douglass in a speech in Rochester, NY, 1857. The Assembly leadership has heard the PSC message about resources needed to begin to rebuild CUNY, even though they did not embrace the union s entire proposal.