On the recordJanuary 1, 1855
The intense desires, now felt, to be free, quickened by my present favorable circumstances, brought me to the determination to act, as well as to think and speak.
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Frederick Douglass
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Douglass describes how his intensified desire for freedom led him to resolve not just to contemplate liberty, but to actively pursue it.
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