Frederick Douglass: “Loving the one I must hate the other; holding to the one I must reject…”

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Loving the one I must hate the other; holding to the one I must reject the other.

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Frederick Douglass

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Douglass emphasizes the necessity of rejecting corrupt practices in favor of true religious values.

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Frederick Douglass: “Loving the one I must hate the other; holding to the one I must reject the other.”