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Treating a person as a brute requires training in irresponsible power
Drawn from what Frederick Douglass said
What Frederick Douglass actually said
- Frederick Douglass American abolitionist and writer (about 1817 to 1895)
She at first lacked the depravity indispensable to shutting me up in mental darkness. It was at least necessary for her to have some training in the exercise of irresponsible power, to make her equal to the task of treating me as though I were a brute.
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↗Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (1845)gutenberg.org
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