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Slaves who praise their masters suppress the truth to avoid the consequences
Drawn from what Frederick Douglass said
What Frederick Douglass actually said
- Frederick Douglass American abolitionist and writer (about 1817 to 1895)
They suppress the truth rather than take the consequences of telling it, and in so doing prove themselves a part of the human family.
Where this was said
↗Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (1845)gutenberg.org
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