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All races are one - they are a unit . The white race is a unit , the Caucasian race is a unit , the black race is a unit - one . There is only one great , terrible fact in regard to the colored race at the present moment -it is that ...
All races are one - they are a unit . The white race is a unit , the Caucasian race is a unit , the black race is a unit - one . There is only one great , terrible fact in regard to the colored race at the present moment -it is that ...
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more rather than be a slave ; and thence he deduces that the colored race , which suffers slavery here , is not emphatically dis- tinguished for courage . I take issue on that statement . There is no race in the world that has not been ...
more rather than be a slave ; and thence he deduces that the colored race , which suffers slavery here , is not emphatically dis- tinguished for courage . I take issue on that statement . There is no race in the world that has not been ...
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I am about to compare and weigh races ; indeed , I am engaged tonight in what you will think the absurd effort to con- vince you that the Negro race , instead of being that object of pity or contempt which we usually consider it ...
I am about to compare and weigh races ; indeed , I am engaged tonight in what you will think the absurd effort to con- vince you that the Negro race , instead of being that object of pity or contempt which we usually consider it ...
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| Title | Wendell Phillips on Civil Rights and Freedom |
| Author | Wendell Phillips |
| Editor | Louis Filler |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | University Press of America, 1982 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 12 Sep 2006 |
| ISBN | 0819127930, 9780819127938 |
| Length | 221 pages |
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