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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
Frederick Douglass
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Frederick Douglass
Age: 77 †
Born: 1818
Born: February 14
Died: 1895
Died: February 20
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Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, . . . neither persons nor property will be safe.
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I know no class of my fellowmen, however just, enlightened, and humane, which can be wisely and safely trusted absolutely with the liberties of any other class.
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