Daily Dose of Douglass: Irritation
Resistance.
By protesting against the increasingly illegal and immoral actions of the Trump administration, are you potentially alienating yourself from certain social circles, work promotions, family or other individuals. Here’s what Frederick Douglass said about THAT – in May 1847. Later, his motto became “Agitate. Agitate. Agitate.”
“But it is asked, ‘What good will this do?’ or ‘What good has it done?’
– Frederick douglass
‘Have you not irritated, have you not annoyed your American friends and the American people rather than done them good?’
I admit that we have irritated them. They deserve to be irritated. I am anxious to irritate the American people on this question. As it is in physics, so in morals, there are cases which demand irritation and counter-irritation. The conscience of the American public needs this irritation, and I would blister it all over from center to circumference, until it gives signs of a purer and a better life than it is now manifesting to the world.
“Country, conscience and the anti-slavery cause”
Kerry Gleason is the author of the award-winning screenplay, “Douglass: The North Star.” It has yet to be produced.