Frederick Douglass: “Lead and steel are the only arguments that they understand.”

On the recordJanuary 1, 1855

Lead and steel are the only arguments that they understand.

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Frederick Douglass

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Douglass asserts that those who uphold slavery respond only to force, highlighting the brutal reality of power dynamics in the face of injustice.

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