Frederick Douglass: “Present organizations may perish, but the cause will go on.”

On the recordJanuary 1, 1855

Present organizations may perish, but the cause will go on.

Said by

Frederick Douglass

Source

In his autobiography, Douglass asserts the inherent immortality of the anti-slavery cause, independent of the specific groups working for it.

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