On the record
For certain it is, that crime allowed to go unpunished, unresisted and unarrested, will breed crime.
Said by
Frederick Douglass
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gutenberg.orgFrederick Douglass: “For certain it is, that crime allowed to go unpunished, unresisted and unarrested, will breed crime.”
Editor's note · Context
Douglass asserts that allowing crime to go unpunished will only lead to more crime, highlighting the cycle of violence.
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