On the recordJanuary 1, 1855
His voice is the voice of a man, and his cry is the cry of a man in distress, and man must cease to be man before he can become insensible to that cry.
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Frederick Douglass
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gutenberg.orgFrederick Douglass: “His voice is the voice of a man, and his cry is the cry of a man in distress, and man must cease to be man before he can…”
Editor's note · Context
In his autobiography, Douglass argues that the cry of an enslaved person is universally human, and to ignore it is to deny one's own humanity.
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