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Worse still, in the presence of such hell-black outrages, the pulpit is usually dumb, and the press in the neighborhood is silent or openly takes side with the mob.
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Frederick Douglass
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gutenberg.orgFrederick Douglass: “Worse still, in the presence of such hell-black outrages, the pulpit is usually dumb, and the press in the neighborhood…”
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Douglass criticizes the silence of religious leaders and the media in the face of racial violence and injustice.
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