Frederick Douglass: “The thought of being only a creature of the present and the past…”

On the recordJanuary 1, 1881

The thought of being only a creature of the present and the past troubled me, and I longed to have a future--a future with hope in it.

Said by

Frederick Douglass

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Douglass expresses his profound desire for a future filled with hope, transcending the limitations of his enslaved existence.

Frederick Douglass: “The thought of being only a creature of the present and the past troubled me, and I longed to have a future--a future…”