Some people will have it that there is a natural, an inherent, and an invincible repugnance in the breast of the white race toward dark-colored people; and some very intelligent colored men think that their proscription is owing solely to the color which nature has given them.
Douglass critiques the belief that racial prejudice stems from a natural or inherent repugnance of white people towards dark-colored people.
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True it is that this faith was many times shaken by passing events, but never destroyed.
His iron sentences, cold and harsh, sunk like heavy weights deep into my heart, and stirred up within me a rebellion not soon to be allayed.
The anti-slavery platform had performed its work, and my voice was no longer needed.