“A man without force is without the essential dignity of humanity. Human nature is so constituted that it cannot honor a helpless man, although it can pity him; and even that it cannot do so for long, if the signs of power do not arise.”
Frederick Douglass, the Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, 1892, p. 143 of 1972 reprint. cited in Orland Patterson’…
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