On the recordJanuary 1, 1881
They, dear fellows, found it much more agreeable to talk of the principles of liberty as glittering generalities, than to reduce those principles to practice.
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Frederick Douglass
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From his autobiography, Douglass critiques those who profess principles of liberty but fail to apply them in practice.
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