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Frederick Douglass: “Education, the sheet anchor of safety to society where liberty and justice are secure, is a dangerous thing to society…”

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Education, the sheet anchor of safety to society where liberty and justice are secure, is a dangerous thing to society in the presence of injustice and oppression.
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Frederick Douglass

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Douglass argues that education can be both a safeguard and a threat in societies marked by injustice.

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