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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, ch. 6 (1845) - Douglass, Frederick | WIST Quotations
"If you give a nigger an inch, he will take an ell. A nigger should know nothing but to obey his master -- to do as he is told to do. Learning will spoil the best nigger in the world. Now, if you teach that nigger how to read, there…