On the record
When a white man steals, robs or murders, his crime is visited upon his own head alone.
Said by
Frederick Douglass
Source
gutenberg.orgWhen a white man steals, robs or murders, his crime is visited upon his own head alone.
In this statement, Douglass contrasts the individual accountability of white criminals with the collective blame placed on Black individuals.
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In any fair condition of things the men who till the soil will become proprietors of the soil.
Nothing but the shot-gun or the bull-dozer’s whip can keep them from voting their convictions.
None now denies the ability of the colored race to acquire knowledge of anything which can be communicated to the human understanding by letters.
The nation or people which shall comply with them will rise, and those which violate them will fall, and perhaps will disappear altogether.