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> # The relation between the white and colored people of this country is the great, paramount, imperative, and all-commanding question for this age and nation to solve.

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## More from Frederick Douglass

1. > 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…

[Permalink to quote \#7](https://quotesby.net/Frederick-Douglass/7/ "Permalink to quote 7")
2. > Once let the black man get upon his person the brass letters US, let him get an eagle on his button, and a musket on his shoulder, and bullets in his pocket, a…

[Permalink to quote \#9](https://quotesby.net/Frederick-Douglass/9/ "Permalink to quote 9")
3. > The destiny of the colored American ... is the destiny of America.

[Permalink to quote \#6](https://quotesby.net/Frederick-Douglass/6/ "Permalink to quote 6")

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