Even though the auditorium was filled with people, the sea of faces did not intimidate me. I had decided to appear in a musical with my local community theater group. There was
no going back now. I reminded myself of how I had gotten here. It took hard work, but I
refused to doubt my abilities. Besides, the director and her staff had held auditions. I had
read the heroine's part. I had sung a song. They had chosen me for the role, but I was
untrained. My skills as an actor would now be judged publicly, but I felt ready to rise to
the challenge. |

Iam for the "immediate, unconditional, and universal" enfranchisement of the black man, in ev [loud applause.] without this, his liberty is a mockery; without this, you might as well almost slavery for his condition; for in fact, if he is not the slave of the individual master, he is the slay liberty as a privilege, not as a right. he is at the mercy of the mob, and has no means of protec how does the repetition of the phrase "without this" support the paragraph's argument? it reinforces the idea that without equality in the us, the idea of a free society is a joke. it suggests that a free society is possible, with or without equal rights for all people. it indicates that douglass would be content without material possessions or status. it proposes that slavery will not be abolished in the us without the support of all citizens.