who said this quote "Those who profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate agitation . . . want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning, they want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. . . . Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did, and it never will."

Abraham Lincoln

Frederick Douglass

The quote "Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did, and it never will" is attributed to Frederick Douglass.