“I have often said elsewhere what I wish to repeat here, that Mr. Lincoln was not only a great President, but a Great Man—too great to be small in anything. In his company I was never in any way reminded of my humble origin, or of my unpopular color.”
From Life and Times of Frederick Douglass: (An African American Heritage Book)
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