Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, . . . neither pers…

Frederick Douglass
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Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, . . . neither persons nor property will be safe. ✨ Speech on the twenty-fourth anniversary of emancipation in the District of Columbia,Washington, D.C., Apr. 1886
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Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, . . . neither persons nor property will be safe. ✨ Speech on the twenty-fourth anniversary of emancipation in the District of Columbia,Washington, D.C., Apr. 1886

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