The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress. … If we ever get free from the oppressions and wrongs heaped upon us, we must pay for their removal. We must do this by labor, by suffering, by sacrifice, and if needs be, by our lives and the lives of others.

Frederick Douglass, “The Significance of Emancipation in the West Indies (1857)” (via philosophybits)