This quote from Page 238
"I will just say, however, that we had some advice given us lately, from very high authority, I allude to Henry Clay, who, in his last speech before the Colonization Society, at Washington, advised the free colored people of the United States that they had better to go to Africa."
Frederick Douglas expresed himself in his speech against a high authority (Henry Clay) who believed that was better that Africans stayed in their counties intead of being in The United States. Douglas was totally disagree because he was claiming the Rights of the Constitution which is against discrimination (gender, race, national origin, age, sexual orientation or gender identity, and individual rights such as freedom of thought, speech, religion, the press and movement).
I pick this quote because I believe that everyone has the right to stay where a person decide to stay, and nobody has to go or not to their country of origin if he/she don`t want. American Colonization Society was planning to freed African Americans in order to take them far from the United States because of their racism. According to the Constitution, Africans suppose to be free with nothing in change. The Amendment # 13 "abolishes slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime."
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