"I have no sympathy for the narrow, selfish notion of economy which assumes that every crumb of bread which goes into the mouth of one class is so much taken from the mouths of another class."
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Frederick Douglass
[Frederick Baily] (1818-1895), escaped slave, Abolitionist, author, editor of the North Star and later the New National Era
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We hold this truth to be self evident. Only a willing and continuing class (at heart and mind) of victims and slaves would rationalize otherwise.
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    Frederick Douglass would make modern liberals head's explode.
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