Agitation

the great and mighty instrument

"Republics exist only on the tenure of being constantly agitated."
Wendell Phillips

Agitation is the great and mighty instrument for carrying forward ...
reforms. Agitation is necessary to purify the political atmosphere of
this nation ..."
Joshua Giddings

"I glory in the name agitator. I wish the country could be agitated more
than it is."
John P. Hale

"I think agitation is the most important factor of all -- the most deeply important. To stir, to question, to suspect, to examine, to denounce"
Walt Whitman

"Agitation ? What have we got to work with but agitation ? Agitation is the things these days for any good."
Henry Ward Beecher
Antislavery minister

"Let others praise eminent men and hold up peace, I hold up agitation and conflict."
Walt Whitman

“Agitation is the marshalling of the conscience of a nation to mold its laws.”
Robert Peel

”As circulation is to the air, so is agitation and a plentiful degree of speculative license to political and moral sanity"

and

"Viva, the attack -- the perennial assault !"
Walt Whitman, Democratic Vistas

And please !!