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> # Despite of it all, the Negro remains ... cool, strong, imperturbable, and cheerful.

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## More from Frederick Douglass

1. > Most that I have done and suffered in the service of our cause has been in public, and I have received much encouragement at every step of the way. You, on the…

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2. > In all the relations of life and death, we are met by the color line.

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3. > In regard to the colored people, there is always more that is benevolent, I perceive, than just, manifested towards us. What I ask for the negro is not benevol…

[Permalink to quote \#10](https://quotesby.net/Frederick-Douglass/10/ "Permalink to quote 10")

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