You should read up the history of Thaddeus Stevens if you haven't yet already. There comes to a point where you need to make strong demands if you want to make

You should read up the history of Thaddeus Stevens if you haven't yet already. There comes to a point where you need to make strong demands if you want to make any progress at all for certain things. Demanding incremental progress for things like slavery in the 1800s leads to half-baked compromise that ultimately led to even more issues later down the line.