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Why may we not yet know with equal certainty when storms are in the moral sky, and how to avoid their desolating force?
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Frederick Douglass
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gutenberg.orgFrederick Douglass: “Why may we not yet know with equal certainty when storms are in the moral sky, and how to avoid their desolating force?”
Editor's note · Context
Douglass questions why we cannot similarly predict moral crises and avoid their destructive consequences.
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