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In regard to the colored people, there is always more that is benevolent, I perceive, than just, manifested towards us. What I ask for the negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.

Frederick Douglass
People, Justice, Pity
Frederick Douglass (2013). “Selected Addresses of Frederick Douglass”, p.32, Simon and Schuster
In regard to the colored people, there is always more that is benevolent, I perceive, than just, manifested towards us. What I ask for the negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.