Jan 1, 1855
The slave finds more of the milk of human kindness in the bosom of the savage Indian, than in the heart of his Christian master.
Frederick Douglass
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Frederick Douglass was an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. He was "the most important leader of the movement for African-American civil rights in the 19th century".
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Jan 1, 1855
I tell you, my friends, humanity is never driven to such an unnatural course of life, without great wrong.
Jan 1, 1855
My religious views on the subject of resisting my master, had suffered a serious shock, by the savage persecution to which I had been subjected, and my hands were no longer tied by my religion.
Jan 1, 1855
A man’s troubles are always half disposed of, when he finds endurance his only remedy.
Jan 1, 1855
If kindness were the rule, we should not see advertisements filling the columns of almost every southern newspaper, offering large rewards for fugitive slaves, and describing them as being branded with irons, loaded with chains, and…
Jan 1, 1855
The majority of slaveholders find it necessary, to insure obedience, at times, to avail themselves of the utmost extent of the law, and many go beyond it.
Jan 1, 1855
He had more respect for the day than for the man, for whom the day was mercifully given; for while he would cut and slash my body during the week, he would not hesitate, on Sunday, to teach me the value of my soul, or the way of life and…
Jan 1, 1855
I admit that there are individual slaveholders less cruel and barbarous than is allowed by law; but these form the exception.
Jan 1, 1855
And yet I am bound to say that they fall short of indicating the horrible cruelties constantly practiced in the slave states.
Jan 1, 1855
His religion hindered him from breaking the Sabbath, but not from breaking my skin.
Jan 1, 1855
A more atrocious and blood-thirsty string of laws could not well be conceived of.