Its best lesson to the world, its most encouraging word to all who toil and trust in the cause of justice and liberty, to all who oppose oppression and slavery, is a word of sublime faith and courage--faith in the truth and courage in the expression.
Reflecting on West India Emancipation, Douglass identifies its core lesson as faith in truth and courage in its expression.
Share
More from Frederick Douglass
Father he might be, and not be husband, and could sell his own child without incurring reproach, if in its veins coursed one drop of African blood.
Land is not worth much where there are no people to occupy it, and a mule is not worth much where there is no one to drive him.
Our very lack of preparation for the conflict disposed us to look for some other than the way of blood out of the difficulty.