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Frederick Douglas's agenda was an agenda, not for black people to get out of slavery. It was for America to become a better democracy. And it's spilt over for women's rights it's split over for worker's rights and so forth.

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Cornel West
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: June 2
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