“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.”
Douglass spoke this in Washington D.C. in October 1883, just after the Supreme Court struck down the Civil Rights Act of 1875 — a decision that gutted legal protections for Black Americans and signaled a retreat from Reconstruction.
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