Learning, living, struggle and progress (2005-04-08)
I am almost finished with my second year of law school -- I have done okay in school but have failed utterly in my quixotic quest to continue writing. So, in the spirit of tilting at windmills, I am trying to start again. Partly, this is because I am about to go work at a big firm for the summer and I have misgivings about getting used to the chichi lunches and expensive office casual wear this will entail. So, in the spirit of keeping it real, here's a quote for the day (borrowed from Howard Zinn's Voices of a People's History of the United States):

"If there is no struggle...there is no progress....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 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."

- Frederick Douglass, abolitionist, author, orator, social reformer