Frederick Douglass: “It springs out of a desire to throw off just responsibility and to…”

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It springs out of a desire to throw off just responsibility and to evade the performance of disagreeable but manifest duty.

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Frederick Douglass

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Douglass critiques the motivations behind lynching, emphasizing the desire to evade responsibility.

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