On the record
Their hearts are right but their heads are wrong.
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Frederick Douglass
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gutenberg.orgFrederick Douglass: “Their hearts are right but their heads are wrong.”
Editor's note · Context
Douglass critiques the misguided beliefs of those who sympathize with the South but fail to understand the complexities of the situation.
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