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or coalition politics or any kind of politics of your choosing, but
it must be a politics that you can help control, it must be a politics
that represents your interests, and it must be a politics that you
will never be ashamed of.
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It must be a politics that will follow the dictum of Frederick
Douglass so many years ago.

Douglass said: "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 the rain
without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful
roar of her mighty waters. The struggle may be a physical one, and it
may be a moral one, or it may be both moral and physical, but there
must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It
never has, and it never will . . .."