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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.

What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.

Frederick Douglass

Justice, Pity, Benevolence

Frederick Douglass (2016). “The Essential Douglass: Selected Writings and Speeches”, p.196, Hackett Publishing