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Frederick Douglass@frederick-douglass Β· 5 July 1852
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. The feeling of the nation must be quickened; the conscience of the nation must be roused; the propriety of the nation must be startled; the hypocrisy of the nation must be exposed; and its crimes against God and man must be proclaimed and denounced.
β Frederick Douglass, What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?, Rochester, NY (5 July 1852)
19th Century