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 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
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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 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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