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The Most Sacred Right (2020)
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The Right to Vote
The right to vote for African Americans in particular, especially once they were liberated by the Civil War, was their greatest self-protection. Douglas saw it not just as a kind of human right to participate in one's political system, but he saw it as a power by which people could protect themselves. He said, natural rights are like the air you breathe. They belong to no one group, no one person, no one country. And the right to vote to Douglas in something called a republic, if it could ever live up to those creeds, was the most sacred right of all.
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