How such a project would have succeeded I do not know, but many reasons led me to prefer that my friends should simply give me the means of obtaining a printing press and materials, to enable me to start a paper, advocating the interests of my enslaved and oppressed people.
Douglass explains his decision to establish a newspaper to advocate for the rights and interests of enslaved and oppressed people.
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The good to be sought and the evil to be shunned were flung in the balance and weighed against each other.
It was perhaps better for the country and for mankind that the good man could not know the end from the beginning.
His iron sentences, cold and harsh, sunk like heavy weights deep into my heart, and stirred up within me a rebellion not soon to be allayed.
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