"When police tried to prevent former slave Frederick Douglass from attending the inaugural reception in 1865, President Lincoln went to the door and said, 'Here comes my friend Douglass!'"
— Frederick Douglass

January 1, 1970

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Civil rights activistsEditors from the United StatesAbolitionistsPublishers from the United StatesJournalists from Maryland
Original Language: English

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William Safire, as quoted in Lend Me Your Ears: Great Speeches in History, by W. Safire, New York: W.W. Norton and Company, p. 179.