On the recordJanuary 1, 1881
I will not listen, myself, and I would not have you listen to the nonsense, that no people can succeed in life among a people by whom they have been despised and oppressed.
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Frederick Douglass
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Douglass challenges the notion that an oppressed people cannot achieve success within the society that oppressed them.
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