Color is made to obscure the brightest endowments, to degrade the fairest character, and to check the highest and most praiseworthy aspirations.
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The time has gone by for colored people to talk of patriotism . . . He used to be proud that his grandfather, on his mother's side, fought for liberty in the Revolutionary War. But that time had passed by.Charles Lenox Remond
We need more radicalism among us before we can speak as becomes a suffering, oppressed, and persecuted people.
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I have only to speak for myself to speak for freedom for myself to determine for freedom for myself and in doing so, I speak and determine for the freedom of every slave on every plantation, and for the fugitives on my right hand . . .
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The grievances of which we complain, be assured, sir, are not imaginary, but real - not local, but universal - not occasional, but continual, everyday matter-of-fact things and have become, to the disgrace of our common country, matters of history.
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