They who study mankind with a whip in their hands will always go wrong…

Frederick Douglass
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They who study mankind with a whip in their hands will always go wrong. ✨ Frederick Douglass, Philip Sheldon Foner, Yuval Taylor (1999). Frederick Douglass: Selected Speeches and Writings, p.402, Chicago Review Press
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They who study mankind with a whip in their hands will always go wrong. ✨ Frederick Douglass, Philip Sheldon Foner, Yuval Taylor (1999). Frederick Douglass: Selected Speeches and Writings, p.402, Chicago Review Press

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