I will not equivocate; I will not excuse;” I will use the severest language I can command; and yet not one word shall escape me that any man, whose judgment is not blinded by prejudice, or who is not at heart a slaveholder, shall not confess to be right and just.
Douglass pledges to speak truthfully and forcefully about the injustices of slavery, regardless of the audience's prejudices.
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