cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/16249582
Do memes from 1911 count if they're still true?
I saw the original of this at the MOHAI in Seattle. There was an entire movement back then, which was somewhat successful. That movement gave us our golden age that our grandparents and parents enjoyed. Thousands of people fought and bled for better working conditions. It is because of them that we have a 40 hour, 5 day work week, instead of laboring endlessly for little reward. We are seeing a resurgence of the conditions that led to that movement because we have become complacent, and those in power will always take as much as they can, and push as far as they're allowed.
Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till 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.
--Frederock Douglas