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

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## More from Frederick Douglass

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

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2. > No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.

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3. > 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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