On the recordJanuary 1, 1855
How could we regard ourselves as in the right, when all about us denounced us as criminals, and had the power and the disposition to treat us as such.
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Frederick Douglass
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In his autobiography, Douglass describes the internal struggle of maintaining self-worth when society universally condemns and persecutes individuals.
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