On the record
I could live for the slave, but he could die for him.
Said by
Frederick Douglass
Source
gutenberg.orgFrederick Douglass: “I could live for the slave, but he could die for him.”
Editor's note · Context
Douglass highlights the difference between living for the cause of the enslaved and the ultimate sacrifice of dying for it.
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