QuoteQuest“Vainly you talk about voting it down. When you have cast your millions of ballots, you have not reached the evil. It has fastened its root deep into the heart of the nation, and nothing but God’s truth and love can cleanse the land. We must change the moral sentiment.”
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Source
- Title
- Wikiquote: Frederick Douglass
- Type
- reference · Secondary source
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- Wikiquote
Context
Love of God, Love of Man, Love of Country (October 22, 1847), Delivered at Market Hall, New York City, New York.
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Douglass, Frederick. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Frederick Douglass. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Frederick_Douglass
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