When persons ask me in these days how, in the midst of what sometimes seem hopelessly discouraging conditions, I can have such faith in the future of my race in this country, I remind them of the wilderness through which and out of which, a good Providence has already led us.
From his autobiography, explaining the source of his enduring optimism for the future of African Americans in the United States.
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