I felt somewhat surprised that I could be so much at ease in such company, but I found it then, as I have since, that the higher the gradation in intelligence and refinement, the farther removed are all artificial distinctions, and restraints of mere caste or color.
From his autobiography, Douglass observes that genuine intelligence and refinement tend to transcend artificial distinctions of race or caste.
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