Now let but the truth be spoken, and a nation will start forth at the sound!” In this enthusiastic spirit, I dropped into the ranks of freedom’s friends, and went forth to the battle.
Douglass expresses his conviction that speaking the truth would awaken the nation to justice, leading him to join the abolitionist movement with enthusiasm.
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