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> # The destiny of the colored American ... is the destiny of America.

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## More from Frederick Douglass

1. > We deem it a settled point that the destiny of the colored man is bound up with that of the white people of this country. ... We are here, and here we are like…

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2. > More than twenty years of unswerving devotion to our common cause may give me some humble claim to be trusted at this momentous crisis. I will not argue. To do…

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3. > If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the …

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