This man, this Douglass, this former slave, this Negro
beaten to his knees, exiled, visioning a world
where none is lonely, none hunted, alien,
this man, superb in love and logic, this man
shall be remembered.
--
Frederick Douglass (lines 7-11), from Collected Poems (1985)Robert Hayden
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