On the record
Such men, it seems to us, are either deficient in self-respect or too mean, servile and cowardly to assert the true dignity of their manhood and that of their race.
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Frederick Douglass
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Douglass critiques those who lack self-respect and fail to uphold the dignity of their race.
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