There are millions of needy people over there, but there are also millions of needy people over here as well, and the millions in America need intelligent men of their number to help them, as much as intelligent men are needed in Africa to help her people.
Douglass highlights the need for skilled individuals to address the challenges faced by African Americans in the U.S.
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The good to be sought and the evil to be shunned were flung in the balance and weighed against each other.
His iron sentences, cold and harsh, sunk like heavy weights deep into my heart, and stirred up within me a rebellion not soon to be allayed.
But we are not here to applaud manly courage, save as it has been displayed in a noble cause.