No struggle No progress

[Haaraahur.]

Many innocent people are suffering injustice and muslims are no exception. So the below poem is a tribute to those people struggling and toiling to improve their lives and the lives of others.

 

No Struggle No Progress

 

By: Fredrick Douglas

 

 

 

The whole history of progress of human liberty

Shows that all concessions

Yet made to her august claims

Have been born of earnest struggle.

If there is no struggle

There is no progress.

 

Those who profess to favor freedom,

And yet depreciate agitation,

Are men [and women] who want crops

Without plowing up the ground,

They want rain

Without thunder and lightning.

They want the ocean

Without the awful roar of its waters.

 

This struggle may be a moral one;

Or it may be a physical one;

Or 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 the exact measure

Of injustice and wrong

 

Which will be imposed upon them,

And these will continue till they are resisted. . .

 

The limits. . . are prescribed

By the endurance

Of those whom. . [are] oppressed].

 

Men [and Women] may not get all they pay for

in this world, but they pay for all they get.

 

If we ever get free

from the oppressions and wrong heaped on us,

we must pay for their removal.

We must do this

by labor,

by suffering,

by sacrifice,

and if needs be

by our lives and the lives of others