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The thought of only being a creature of the present and the past was troubling. I longed for a future too, with hope in it. The desire to be free, awakened my determination to act, to think, and to SPEAK.

The thought of only being a creature of the present and the past was troubling. I longed for a future too, with hope in it. The desire to be free, awakened my determination to act, to think, and to SPEAK.

Frederick Douglass
Determination, Past, Thinking

America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future.

Frederick Douglass
Past, America, Literature
What to the Slave is the 4th of July?, delivered 4 July 1852