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Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, . . . neither persons nor property will be safe.
Frederick Douglass
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Frederick Douglass
Age: 77 †
Born: 1818
Born: February 14
Died: 1895
Died: February 20
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Talbot County
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Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey
Frederick Augustus Washington Baly
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...I recognize the widest possible difference-so wide, that to receive the one as good, pure, and holy, is of necessity to reject the other as bad, corrupt, and wicked. To be the friend of one, is of necessity to be the enemy of the other.
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