Frederick Douglass: “It remains now to be seen whether we have the needed courage to have…”

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It remains now to be seen whether we have the needed courage to have that cause entirely removed from the Republic.

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Frederick Douglass

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He calls for courage to remove the underlying causes of societal issues from the nation.

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Frederick Douglass: “It remains now to be seen whether we have the needed courage to have that cause entirely removed from the Republic.”