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Frederick Douglass: Experience proves that it takes more than one class of people to tell the whole truth about matters in which they are…

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Experience proves that it takes more than one class of people to tell the whole truth about matters in which they are interested on opposite sides, and we protest against the allowance of only one side of the labor question to be heard by the country in this case.
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Frederick Douglass

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Douglass argues that multiple viewpoints are necessary to fully understand labor-related truths.

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