Frederick Douglass — "Oh! had I the ability, and could I reach the nation's ear, I would today pour ou…"

Oh! had I the ability, and could I reach the nation's ear, I would today pour out a fiery stream of biting ridicule, blasting reproach, withering sarcasm, and stern rebuke. For it is not light that is needed, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.
Frederick Douglass — Frederick Douglass Modern · Abolitionist, orator

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What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? speech

Date: 1852

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