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Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches

And the difficultiesto be overcome in getting from the latterto the former are by no means...

And the difficulties
to be overcome in getting from the latter
to the former are by no means slight

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And the difficulties to be overcome
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in getting from the latter to the former
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are by no means slight.
Duration
8 seconds
Views
36
Timestamp in Movie
00:30:09
Uploaded
Mar 29, 2025
Genres
documentary
Production
McGee Media,Inkwell Media

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Inspired by David Blight's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography, Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom.
The first movement, fairly short, - Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches 00:17
The first movement, fairly short,
Frederick's going to lift us up today." - Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches 00:12
Frederick's going to lift us up today."
The signers of the Declaration of Independence were brave men. - Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches 00:06
The signers of the Declaration of Independence were brave me...
But they preferred revolution - Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches 00:07
But they preferred revolution
And then, the whole middle movement of the symphony - Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches 00:06
And then, the whole middle movement of the symphony
"You invited me here to sing for you, - Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches 00:10
"You invited me here to sing for you,
Mark the sad procession - Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches 00:10
Mark the sad procession
Hear his savage yells and his blood-chilling oaths - Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches 00:07
Hear his savage yells and his blood-chilling oaths
See the forms of women rudely and brutally exposed - Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches 00:08
See the forms of women rudely and brutally exposed
What do I or those I represent have to do - Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches 00:07
What do I or those I represent have to do
Are the great principles of political freedom - Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches 00:12
Are the great principles of political freedom
What to the American slave is your Fourth of July? - Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches 00:06
What to the American slave is your Fourth of July?
I answer a day that reveals to him, - Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches 00:10
I answer a day that reveals to him,
To him, - Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches 00:06
To him,
Your national greatness, swelling vanity. - Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches 00:06
Your national greatness, swelling vanity.
The existence of slavery in this country - Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches 00:09
The existence of slavery in this country
Had I the ability and could I reach the nation's ear, - Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches 00:17
Had I the ability and could I reach the nation's ear,
For it is not light that is needed, - Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches 00:07
For it is not light that is needed,
It is not the gentle shower, but thunder. - Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches 00:05
It is not the gentle shower, but thunder.
We need the storm, the whirlwind, - Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches 00:06
We need the storm, the whirlwind,