Quote of the Day

"Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property are safe."

                                                                                       -Frederick Douglass






I respectfully submit that, while Douglass worked against systemic oppression that was very real, his words apply still today as an indictment of welfare programs, affirmative action, Social Security, and any other government institution or law that makes it tolerable to neglect self-improvement and initiative.  The irony is that those programs make the injustices they claim to fight into realities.