Transcript of "Hope<span>, </span>Despair and Memory" Excerpts from Elie Wiesel's Nobel Prize Lecture "Hope<span>, </span>Despair and Memory<span>" Without </span>memory<span>, our existence would be barren and opaque, like a prison cell into which no light penetrates; like a tomb which rejects the living.</span>
<span>The deserving conclusion for this piece about Frederick Douglass's impact on the abolition of slavery would be his voice demanded justice for those who had no choice in their destiny. He was one of great intellectuals that worked for the abolishment of slavery and so is known as Abolitionist leader. He himself was born into slavery but later somehow escaped it.</span><span />
