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Frederick Douglass: Every man who thinks at all, must know that home is the fountain head, the inspiration, the foundation and main support…

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Every man who thinks at all, must know that home is the fountain head, the inspiration, the foundation and main support, not only of all social virtue but of all motives to human progress, and that no people can prosper, or amount to much, unless they have a home, or the hope of a home.
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Frederick Douglass

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Douglass asserts that having a home is essential for social virtue and human progress.

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