“Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul-and sings the tunes without the words-and never stops at all.” -Emily Dickinson

https://poets.org/poem/hope-thing-feathers-254

“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 up the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, and it may be both moral and physical, but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.” -Frederick Douglass, 1857

(1857) Frederick Douglass, “If There Is No Struggle, There Is No Progress”