OCCUPY YOUR MIND
THE REVOLUTION BEGINS WITHIN
The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you
Don't go back to sleep.
You must ask for what you really wan't
Don't go back to Sleep.
People are going back and forth across the doors
Where the two worlds touch.
The door is round and open
Don't go back to sleep.
- Rumi.
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 AND THEY WANT THE OCEAN WITHOUT THE ROAR OF ITS MANY WATERS. THE STRUGGLE MAY BE A MORAL ONE, OR IT MAY BE A PHYSICAL ONE, OR IT MAY BE BOTH. BUT IT MUST BE A STRUGGLE. POWER CONCEDES NOTHING WITHOUT A DEMAND;
IT NEVER HAS AND NEVER WILL.
- Frederick Douglas, 1857.
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