In the Words of Frederick Douglass by Douglass Frederick;Kaufman Heather L.;McKivigan John R.; & HEATHER L. KAUFMAN
Author:Douglass, Frederick;Kaufman, Heather L.;McKivigan, John R.; & HEATHER L. KAUFMAN
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-8014-6369-3
Publisher: Lightning Source Inc. (Tier 3)
Purpose
[The true object of government is] to see that all have an equal chance in the race of life.
—Speech: “In Law Free; in Fact, a Slave,” April 16, 1888, Douglass Papers, ser. 1, 5:369
The true object for which governments are ordained among men is to protect the weak against the encroachments of the strong, to hold its strong arm of justice over all the civil relations of its citizens and to see that all have an equal chance in the race of life. Now, in the case of the negro citizen. Our national government does precisely the reverse of all this. Instead of protecting the weak against the encroachments of the strong, it tacitly protects the strong in its encroachments upon the weak.
—Speech: “In Law Free; in Fact, a Slave,” April 16, 1888, Douglass Papers, ser. 1, 5:369
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