“The days of Black Power are numbered. Its course, indeed is …”

“The days of Black Power are numbered. Its course, indeed is onward. But with the swiftness of an arrow, it rushes to the tomb. While crushing its millions, it is also crushing itself. The sword of Retribution, suspended by a single hair, hangs over it. That sword must fall. Liberty must triumph.”

— Frederick Douglass

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Title: Wikiquote: Frederick Douglass
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As quoted in "Sustaining Black Studies", by Winston A. Van Horne, Journal of Black Studies, Vol. 37, No. 3, (January 2007)

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Douglass, Frederick. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Frederick Douglass. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Frederick_Douglass

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