Frederick Douglass: "I would unite with anybody to do…"

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我愿与任何人联合以行正义但决不与任何人联合以行不义

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“Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave”

Frederick Douglass

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“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will”

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