Posted by FREDERICK DOUGLASS on July 02, 2003 at 00:57:03:
In Reply to: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: isn't this is a good thing? Re: VPO posted by Joe Baker on July 01, 2003 at 10:37:25:
...a quotation from an 1865 speech:
"What I ask for the Negro," Douglass said, "is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice. ... All I ask is, give him a chance to stand on his own legs! Let him alone! ... Your interference is doing him positive injury."