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.
(Speech in New York, 1863)
Frederick Douglass
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Once you learn to read, you will forever be free. It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake. If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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