We owe something to the slave south of the line as well as to those north of it; and in aiding the latter on their way to freedom, we should be careful to do nothing which would be likely to hinder the former from escaping from slavery.
In his autobiography, Douglass emphasizes the responsibility to aid all enslaved people, urging caution against actions that might inadvertently hinder those still in bondage.
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No people to whom liberty is given, can hold it as firmly and wear it as grandly as those who wrench their liberty from the iron hand of the tyrant.
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