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> # Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.

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## More from Frederick Douglass

1. > The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.

[Permalink to quote \#15](https://quotesby.net/Frederick-Douglass/15/ "Permalink to quote 15")
2. > It is not uncommon to charge slaves with great treachery toward each other, but I must say I never loved, esteemed, or confided in men more than I did in these…

[Permalink to quote \#17](https://quotesby.net/Frederick-Douglass/17/ "Permalink to quote 17")
3. > No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.

[Permalink to quote \#14](https://quotesby.net/Frederick-Douglass/14/ "Permalink to quote 14")

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