The story of our inferiority is an old dodge, as I have said: for… — Frederick Douglass · Skopia

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The story of our inferiority is an old dodge, as I have said: for wherever men oppress their fellows, wherever they enslave them, they will endeavor to find the needed apology for such enslavement and oppression in the character of the people oppressed and enslaved.

Frederick Douglass

1865

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Oppressor and oppressed

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Frederick Douglass

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Douglass, Frederick. Great Speeches by Frederick Douglass. Dover Publications, 2013.

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Douglass, Frederick. “What the Black Man Wants.” Annual Meeting of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society. 26 Jan. 1865, Boston, MA, USA.

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