On the record
One was the heated judgment of the passing and passionate hour, and the other was the calm, clear, unimpeachable judgment of the broad, illimitable future.
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Frederick Douglass
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gutenberg.orgFrederick Douglass: “One was the heated judgment of the passing and passionate hour, and the other was the calm, clear, unimpeachable…”
Editor's note · Context
Douglass contrasts immediate judgments with the more enduring and rational judgments that history will provide.
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