no struggle, no progress

If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate agitation are men who want crops without plowing the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the terrible roar of its waters . . . Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. . . . Men might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.

-- Frederick Douglass, 1857