The Emancipation Proclamation confirmed their insistence that the war for the Union must become a war for freedom. If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those of us who profess to favor freedom yet depreciate agitation are men who want the crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder. This struggle may be a moral one or a physical one, but it must be a struggle.
Power concedes nothing without demand.
It never has and never will. Show me the exact amount of wrong and injustices that are visited upon a person and I will show you the exact amount of words endured by these people. These wrongs and injustices may be fought with words or with blows or both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.