Speech at the Emancipation League (12 February 1862), Boston
1860s
1940s, Third inaugural address (1941)
Keynote address, Democratic National Convention, New York (12 July 1976). (see External links)
Source: Article in The Daily Herald (14 December 1945), quoted in Mervyn Jones, Michael Foot (1994), p. 141
“Men do not shape destiny. Destiny produces the man for the hour.”
I Won't Be a Dictator (1959)
Essay in North Star (November 1858); as quoted in Faces at the Bottom of the Well : The Permanence of Racism (1992) by Derrick Bell, p. 40
1850s
Context: We deem it a settled point that the destiny of the colored man is bound up with that of the white people of this country. … We are here, and here we are likely to be. To imagine that we shall ever be eradicated is absurd and ridiculous. We can be remodified, changed, assimilated, but never extinguished. We repeat, therefore, that we are here; and that this is our country; and the question for the philosophers and statesmen of the land ought to be, What principles should dictate the policy of the action toward us? We shall neither die out, nor be driven out; but shall go with this people, either as a testimony against them, or as an evidence in their favor throughout their generations.
Literary Essays, vol. II (1870–1890), New England Two Centuries Ago
DRAGON’S LAIR: An interview with Don Bluth and Gary Goldman https://www.indiewire.com/2015/12/dragons-lair-an-interview-with-don-bluth-and-gary-goldman-122447/ (December 18, 2015)
“Because I had sought to challenge Destiny, Destiny had taken vengeance.”
Book 3 “Visions and Revelations” Chapter 5 “The Waking of the Sword” (p. 421)
Phoenix in Obsidian (1970)
Source: Chronicles: Vol. One (2004), p. 73
