Frederick Douglass: “A man, without force, is without the essential dignity of humanity.”

On the recordJanuary 1, 1855

A man, without force, is without the essential dignity of humanity.

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Frederick Douglass

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Douglass asserts a fundamental principle about human nature, linking the capacity for self-assertion to inherent dignity.

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