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Frederick Douglass1817–1895

Frederick Douglass on power

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.

Frederick Douglass

West India Emancipation (If There Is No Struggle, There Is No Progress) (1857)

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No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.
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To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
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What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome.
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What is good? Everything that heightens the feeling of power in man, the will to power, power itself.
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Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.
Carl Jung1875–1961The Psychology of the Unconscious (1943), P. 97
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