Frederick Douglass quote...?

Question

This is the quote : "Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are people who want crops without ploughing the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning; they want the ocean without the roar of its many waters. The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand; it never has and it never will.”

I need to find a connection between this quote and The Crucible by Arthur Miller, which is about the Salem witch trials...So if you know anything about either, any help would be appreciated :)

Answer 1

It sounds like he is more of the Malcolm X school of thought than the MLK one. As for the Salem witch trials, I am less knowledgeable, but I suspect the point is that someone has to stand up (even if violently) to create righteous change.