Frederick Douglass: “He is an owner of the marble grandeur which he beholds about him,--as…”

On the recordJanuary 1, 1881

He is an owner of the marble grandeur which he beholds about him,--as much so as any of the forty millions of this great nation.

Said by

Frederick Douglass

Source

From his autobiography, Douglass asserts that every citizen shares ownership in the grandeur of the national capital.

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