The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion. ✨ F…

Frederick Douglass
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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion. ✨ Frederick Douglass, Philip Sheldon Foner, Yuval Taylor (1999). Frederick Douglass: Selected Speeches and Writings, p.594, Chicago Review Press
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