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Against truth and right, legislative enactments were to his mind mere cobwebs--the pompous emptiness of human pride--the pitiful outbreathings of human nothingness.
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Frederick Douglass
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Douglass asserts that legislative measures supporting injustice are insignificant compared to moral truth.
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