Frederick douglas Quote by Connie Rice

In the words of Frederick Douglas, power concedes nothing without a demand; it never has and it never will. We must be that demand.…

— Jill Stein

The 1857 uprising in India did not free the subcontinent, but it changed the way the British viewed and sought to govern it.

— Linda Colley

“In her famous proclamation of 1858, Queen Victoria declared that it was the will of the crown saying, “Our subjects, of whatever race or…

— Anonymous

“F.S. Nariman rightly found some similarity between the decision of the ADM Jabalpur and that of Dred Scott, rendered more than a century ago…

— Justice Asok Kumar Ganguly

“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and…

— Frederick Douglass

“India all too easily forgets its own history under British rule, and the declaration of its freedom fighters that the oppressor does not have…

— Angana P. Chatterji

“India had a very long independence movement. It started in 1886, [with] the first generation of Western-educated Indians. They were all liberals. They followed…

— Meghnad Desai

“Power concedes nothing without a demand.”

— Frederick Douglas

“This is the secret of the political history of modern India. Weakened by division, it succumbed to invaders; impoverished by invaders, it lost all…

— Will Durant

“Power concedes nothing without demand. It never has and never will. Show me the exact amount of wrong and injustices that are visited upon…

— Frederick Douglass

I must fight unto the death the unholy attempt to impose British methods and British institutions on India.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I had not got over the prejudice against Lincoln with which my personal contact with him in 1858 imbued me.

— Henry Villard