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If the colored man does not depend upon the Republican party, he will depend upon the Democratic party, and if he does neither, he becomes a nonentity in American politics.
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Frederick Douglass
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gutenberg.orgFrederick Douglass: “If the colored man does not depend upon the Republican party, he will depend upon the Democratic party, and if he does…”
Editor's note · Context
Douglass argues that a Black man must align with a political party to have any influence in American politics.
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