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Frederick Douglass Quote - If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man.

If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man.

Frederick Douglass

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Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.
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