Excerpt from The College of Life, or Practical Self-Educator: A Manual of Self-Improvement for the Colored Race, Forming an Educational Emancipator and a Guide to Success, Giving Examples and Achievements of Successful Men and Women of the Race as an Incentive and Inspiration to the Rising Generation
A loud burst of applause greeted these Words. Douglass stretched himself to his full height of six feet, and with every nerve quivering, exclaimed, The destiny of the colored race is in their own hands. They must heir and suffer they must toil and be patient they must carve out their own for tune, and they will do it.
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