#conforms — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #conforms, aggregated by home.social.
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Though the colored #man is no longer subject to be bought and sold, he is still surrounded by an adverse sentiment which fetters all his movements. In his downward course he meets with no #resistance, but his course upward is resented and #resisted at every step of his progress. If he comes in #ignorance, rags, and wretchedness, he #conforms to the popular belief of his character, and in that character he is welcome. But if he shall come as a gentleman...
Frederick Douglass
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Though the colored #man is no longer subject to be bought and sold, he is still surrounded by an adverse sentiment which fetters all his movements. In his downward course he meets with no #resistance, but his course upward is resented and #resisted at every step of his progress. If he comes in #ignorance, rags, and wretchedness, he #conforms to the popular belief of his character, and in that character he is welcome. But if he shall come as a gentleman...
Frederick Douglass
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Though the colored #man is no longer subject to be bought and sold, he is still surrounded by an adverse sentiment which fetters all his movements. In his downward course he meets with no #resistance, but his course upward is resented and #resisted at every step of his progress. If he comes in #ignorance, rags, and wretchedness, he #conforms to the popular belief of his character, and in that character he is welcome. But if he shall come as a gentleman...
Frederick Douglass
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Though the colored #man is no longer subject to be bought and sold, he is still surrounded by an adverse sentiment which fetters all his movements. In his downward course he meets with no #resistance, but his course upward is resented and #resisted at every step of his progress. If he comes in #ignorance, rags, and wretchedness, he #conforms to the popular belief of his character, and in that character he is welcome. But if he shall come as a gentleman...
Frederick Douglass
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Though the colored #man is no longer subject to be bought and sold, he is still surrounded by an adverse sentiment which fetters all his movements. In his downward course he meets with no #resistance, but his course upward is resented and #resisted at every step of his progress. If he comes in #ignorance, rags, and wretchedness, he #conforms to the popular belief of his character, and in that character he is welcome. But if he shall come as a gentleman...
Frederick Douglass