On the record
Owing to popular prejudice, it has become the misfortune of the coloured people of the South and of the North as well, to have, as I have said, the sins of the few visited upon the many.
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Frederick Douglass
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Douglass discusses the consequences of prejudice, where the actions of a few negatively impact the entire community.
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