Find out just what the people will submit to and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until 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.. ~ Frederick Douglass ~ civil rights activist, Aug. 4, 1857 Any power that can be abused will be abused. — Tyranny Law #1 Abuse always expands to fill the limits of resistance to it. — Tyranny Law #2 If people don't resist the abuses of others, they will have no one to resist the abuses of themselves, and tyranny will prevail. — Tyranny Law #3 The contest is not between Us and Them, but between Good and Evil, and if those who would fight Evil adopt the ways of Evil, Evil wins.. constitution.org/cs_abuse.htm Abuses and Usurpations