Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have
found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be
imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted
with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants
are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress. . . .
~ Frederick Douglass
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Quoted from Frederick Douglass, Speech on West India Emancipation, Canandaigua, New York, August 3, 1857 (This speech can be found also at the Library of Congress.)
Frederick Douglass, (1817 or 1818-1895), African-American Social Reformer, Abolitionist, Orator, Writer
Frederick Douglass National Historic Site (U.S. National Park)
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