If the Negro cannot stand on his own legs, let him fall also. All I ask is, give him a chance to stand on his own legs! Let him alone!
Abolitionist, orator
If the Negro cannot stand on his own legs, let him fall also. All I ask is, give him a chance to stand on his own legs! Let him alone!
Abolitionist, orator
Speech "What the Black Man Wants" at the Annual Meeting of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society in Boston
1865
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