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Frederick Douglass: “For certain it is, that crime allowed to go unpunished, unresisted and unarrested, will breed crime.”

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For certain it is, that crime allowed to go unpunished, unresisted and unarrested, will breed crime.
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Frederick Douglass

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Douglass asserts that allowing crime to go unpunished will only lead to more crime, highlighting the cycle of violence.

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