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The great hindrance to the advancement of the free colored people is the want of unity in action. If we were to unite in the pursuit of any one object, I can imagine no possibility beyond our power to compass. But we are not united as a people; and the main reason why we are not united is that we are not equally oppressed. This is the grand secret of our lack of union.

James McCune Smith

Nations which are pleased to term themselves civilized, have one sort of faith which they hold to one another, and another sort which they entertain towards people less advanced in refinement. The faith which they entertain towards the latter, is very often treachery, in the vocabulary of the civilized.

James McCune Smith

James McCune Smith

James McCune Smith

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Born: April 18, 1813

Died: November 17, 1865 (aged 52)

Bio: James McCune Smith was an American physician, apothecary, abolitionist, and author. He was the first African American to hold a medical degree and graduated at the top in his class at the University of Glasgow.

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