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Frederick Douglass Quote - 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.

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.

Frederick Douglass

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