"To freed slaves Frederick Douglass insisted on self-determination, telling them, "we need mechanics as well as ministers. We must build as well as live in houses; we must make as well as use furniture; we must construct bridges as well as pass over them." It was Douglass who first called on black people to do for themselves when he wrote an editorial entitled "Learn Trades or Starve."

Author Juan Williams from "Enough"

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