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It is, therefore, quite gratuitous to assume that the principles that apply to other men, apply to the lynchers and murderers of the Negro.
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Frederick Douglass
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gutenberg.orgFrederick Douglass: “It is, therefore, quite gratuitous to assume that the principles that apply to other men, apply to the lynchers and…”
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Douglass argues that the principles of justice do not apply to those who commit acts of lynching and murder against the Negro.
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