On the record
The argument against equal rights at hotels is very improperly put upon the ground that the exercise of such rights, it is insisted, is social equality.
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Frederick Douglass
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He critiques the argument against equal rights in public accommodations, asserting that it misrepresents the issue as one of social equality.
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