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"The origin of the language we speak carries us to India; our religion is from Palestine; of the hymns sung in our churches, some were first heard in Italy, some in the deserts of Arabia, some on the banks of the Euphrates; our arts come from Greece; our jurisprudence from Rome."
"Every human being drawing vital breath upon this soil...he may be of Caucasian, Jewish, Indian, or Ethiopian race...but before the Constitution of Massachusetts all these distinctions disappear. He is a MAN, the equal of all his fellow-men."
- Charles Sumner
- Charles Sumner
"“I believe the entire records of the world, from the date of the Declaration of Independence up to within three years ago, may be searched in vain for one single affirmation, from one single man, that the negro was not included in the Declaration of Independence."
- Lincoln
- Lincoln
"Our land is capable of supporting one fifth of all the globe...All moral, social and geographical causes, conspire to bring to us the peoples of all other over populated countries."
- Frederick Douglass
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- Frederick Douglass
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"It is inferred that we shall never have a large Chinese population in America. This however is not my opinion...Counting their number now, by the thousands, the time is not remote when they will count them by the millions."
- Frederick Douglass
- Frederick Douglass
"I want a home here not only for the negro, the mulatto and the Latin races; but I want the Asiatic to find a home here in the United States, and feel at home here, both for his sake and for ours."
- Frederick Douglass
- Frederick Douglass
"In whatever else other nations may have been great and grand, our greatness and grandeur will be found in the faithful application of the principle of perfect civil equality to the people of all races and of all creeds, and to men of no creeds."
- Frederick Douglass
- Frederick Douglass
"A nation founded on revolution and universal rights will forever struggle against chaos and the forces of particularism. A nation born in contradiction will forever fight over the meaning of its history. But that doesn’t mean history is meaningless"
- Jill Lepore
- Jill Lepore
