Though this folly may be less apparent, it is just as real, when one-half of the moral and intellectual power of the world is excluded from any voice or vote in civil government.
In his autobiography, Douglass critiques the exclusion of women from civil government, likening it to a folly that diminishes society's power.
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Father he might be, and not be husband, and could sell his own child without incurring reproach, if in its veins coursed one drop of African blood.
It was perhaps better for the country and for mankind that the good man could not know the end from the beginning.