Frederick Douglass Quote 

"Find out just what the people will submit to and you have found out
the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon
them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either
words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by
the endurance of those whom they oppress."

by:
Frederick Douglass
[Frederick Baily] (1818-1895), escaped slave, Abolitionist, author, editor of the North Star and later the New National Era
Date:
August 4, 1857
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Obviously, America hasn't reached her threshold of pain yet. Too many sheeple with the ability to vote.
 -- Logan, Memphis, TN		 
Hits the nail on the head
 -- Steve Hambling, Ottawa, Canada		 
The words of this quote are true.What more can I say?
 -- Me Again		 
aahhh yes, back to the quote of a few days ago, steps and slippery slopes. And, Logan you're right, the sheeple's pain threshold is great, especially when the shepherds keep telling their flock the pain their feeling is good, it's the pangs of freedom, and that the sheeple just need more of the same.
 -- Mike, Norwalk		 
Our enduance of tyranny is obviously very high. As long as the powers that be continue to provide "bread and circuses" we won't rock the boat. The scary thing is that one day it will be too late. That will be the day when we are finally convinced to give up our arms. Those who will fight then will be few and easy to overcome. "If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may be even a worse fate. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves." Winston Churchill
 -- Mike, Mount Holly, NC		 
Many people have had enough. Words aren't working on elected officials. I'm afraid it may soon come to blows.
 -- Joe, Rochester, MI		 
READ THIS: http://www.jpfo.org/veterans.htm
 -- Mike, Mount Holly, NC		 
You are right about the bread and circuses, Mike. See if this sounds familiar: "...Augustus won over the soldiers with gifts, the populace with cheap corn, and all men with the sweets of repose, and so grew greater by degrees, while he concentrated in himself the functions of the Senate, the magistrates, and the laws. He was wholly unopposed, for the boldest spirits had fallen in battle, or in the proscription, while the remaining nobles, the readier they were to be slaves, were raised the higher by wealth and promotion, so that, aggrandised by revolution, they preferred the safety of the present to the dangerous past. Nor did the provinces dislike that condition of affairs, for they distrusted the government of the Senate and the people, because of the rivalries between the leading men and the rapacity of the officials, while the protection of the laws was unavailing, as they were continually deranged by violence, intrigue, and finally by corruption." --The Annals of Tacitus (109 A.D)
 -- Ken, Allyn, WA		 
Logan is right. America is kept comfortable with easy credit, 100 TV stations, easy credit (everybody is in debt), and a myriad of entertaining distrations to keep us 'occupied.' Little do we realize that a very large portion of our federal debt is held by Arab and Chinese creditors...
 -- E Archer, NYC		 
,,, and the taxpayers (read slaves to the State) are the guarantors of that debt.
 -- Mike, Mount Holly, NC		 
And it appears that the limits have been reached (according to the results of the 2006.11.07 elections)...
 -- Anonymous, Reston, VA US		 
LOL!!! Anonymous, 11.07 only showed that the fascist neocons were having a hard time advancing their brand of liberty destruction. What is really needed to further liberty's destruction is more taxes, bigger government and an extra dose of socialist liberalism to level out tyranny's playing field. "and these will continue until they are resisted" then the pendulum will swing so we can get some more neocon tyranny.
 -- Mike, Norwalk		 
Just a side note: The name of one of the most cruel white overseers of the slaves, mentioned in chapter 3 or 4 of Douglass' autobiography, is named Mr. Gore. Any relation?
 -- David L. Rosenthal		 
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