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Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches

Had I the ability and couldI reach the nation's ear, I would todaypour out a fiery stream...

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

Full Transcript

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Had I the ability and could I reach the nation's ear,
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I would today pour out a fiery stream
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of biting ridicule,
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blasting reproach,
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withering sarcasm, and stern rebuke.
Duration
17 seconds
Views
30
Timestamp in Movie
00:32:47
Uploaded
Mar 29, 2025
Genres
documentary
Production
McGee Media,Inkwell Media

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Movie Summary

Inspired by David Blight's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography, Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom.
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,
The feeling of the nation must be roused. - Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches 00:05
The feeling of the nation must be roused.
The propriety of the nation must be startled, - Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches 00:16
The propriety of the nation must be startled,
Blight: And he stops. - Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches 00:06
Blight: And he stops.
The audience has felt in pain - Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches 00:10
The audience has felt in pain
The last short movement of the speech, - Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches 00:09
The last short movement of the speech,
"It is still malleable, - Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches 00:07
"It is still malleable,
"If you can't solve this problem of slavery, - Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches 00:11
"If you can't solve this problem of slavery,
There are forces in operation - Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches 00:06
There are forces in operation
We don't hear a lot about people - Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches 00:12
We don't hear a lot about people
You know, he's a Black man in that period, - Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches 00:09
You know, he's a Black man in that period,
He has to be extremely savvy - Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches 00:13
He has to be extremely savvy
And he does it really effectively and beautifully. - Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches 00:07
And he does it really effectively and beautifully.
Gates: Douglass knew that an argument - Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches 00:11
Gates: Douglass knew that an argument
And, he knocked it out of the park. - Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches 00:05
And, he knocked it out of the park.
Roy: The Civil War began when Douglass was - Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches 00:16
Roy: The Civil War began when Douglass was
Blight: The war brings about - Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches 00:09
Blight: The war brings about
Douglass saw it as finally, finally, - Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches 00:17
Douglass saw it as finally, finally,