Frederick Douglass: “It belongs to that craftiness often displayed by disputants who aim to…”

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It belongs to that craftiness often displayed by disputants who aim to make the worse appear the better reason.

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Frederick Douglass

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He critiques the rhetorical strategies used to distort arguments and mislead public opinion.

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Frederick Douglass: “It belongs to that craftiness often displayed by disputants who aim to make the worse appear the better reason.”