Who would be free themselves must strike the blow. Better even to die free than to live slaves.
Frederick Douglass, George L. Ruffin (2001). “Life and Times of Frederick Douglass: His Early Life as a Slave, His Escape from Bondage, and His Complete History to the Present Time”, p.415, Digital Scanning Inc
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