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By Frederick Douglass
…it is not light that is needed, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.
- Source
- Oration, Delivered in Corinthian Hall, Rochester (What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?), 1852 · Oration delivered in Corinthian Hall, Rochester, 1852, p. 20
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- Internet Archive (scan of the 1852 Rochester pamphlet, Lee, Mann & Co.)
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From Douglass's oration at Corinthian Hall, Rochester, New York, on July 5, 1852, as printed in the 1852 pamphlet. The quote opens mid-sentence: the printed sentence begins "For it is not light that is needed."