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LIFE AND TIMES OF FREDERICK DOUGLASS

from the Almighty, and as their "faith is the substance of things hoped for
and the evidence of things not seen," they find much in this expression
which is true to faith but utterly false to fact. But I meant here only to say a
word in conclusion. Forty years of my life have been given to the cause of
my people, and if I had forty years more they should all be sacredly given to
the great cause. If I have done something for that cause, I am after all more
a debtor to it than it is debtor to me.