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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I think I never saw a community of people so happy over anything as were the coloured people over the prospect of this new building.
No one section of our country was wholly responsible for its introduction, and, besides, it was recognized and protected for years by the General Government.