; they want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, and it may be both moral and physical, but it must be a struggle. 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. . (10) Douglass was active politically, endorsing the anti-slavery platform of the Republican Party. He advised President Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War, pressing him to emancipate all slaves and allowing their enlistment in the Union Army. This policy would prove crucial to the Union Army’s recruiting efforts and eventual victory over the Confederacy. (11) Douglass became the first Black journalist granted access to the Capitol press galleries. Holding membership from 1871 to 1875, he diligently reported on legislative developments within the House and Senate during the Reconstruction era. His reports consistently provided vital information to Black communities, bridging the gap between legislative actions and their impacts on these communities. (12) After the war, Douglass continued to work on full implementation of abolition. Despite the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment that outlawed slavery, Douglass argued that the work of Abolitionists is not done , and that equal citizenship and rights were essential to finish the cause. He supported the passage of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments, pushing above all for the right for black men to vote. (13) Douglass continued to advocate for full engagement and enfranchisement of Blacks in society, denouncing and speaking on segregation and the growing wave of violence against Blacks in the American South. Frustrated that the promises