No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man, without at last finding the other end of it fastened about his own neck. The lesson of all the ages on this point is, that a wrong done to one man, is a wrong done to all men.
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- Speech at the Civil Rights Mass Meeting, Washington, D.C., October 22, 1883; Two consecutive complete sentences in the1883 speech opposing racial exclusion and the Civil Rights Cases decision. Surrounding argument read; retained historical wording and punctuation. Public-domain speech reproduced fro
- Speech at the Civil Rights Mass Meeting, Washington, D.C., October 22, 1883
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