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By Frederick Douglass
Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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- Two Speeches by Frederick Douglass (West India Emancipation, Canandaigua), 1857 · Two Speeches, 1857, West India Emancipation, p. 22
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- Internet Archive (scan of the 1857 pamphlet Two Speeches by Frederick Douglass)
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From Douglass's speech on West India emancipation, delivered at Canandaigua, New York, on August 4, 1857, as printed in the 1857 pamphlet Two Speeches.