It is because I love this religion that I hate the slaveholding, the woman-whipping, the mind-darkening, the soul-destroying religion that exists in the southern states of America.
Douglass powerfully contrasts his cherished ideal of true religion with the hypocritical and oppressive practices of slaveholding Christianity in the American South.
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The good to be sought and the evil to be shunned were flung in the balance and weighed against each other.
For the moment the northern lamb was transformed into a lion, and his roar was terrible.
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.
I wished it was possible I could remain small all my life, knowing that the sooner I grew large the shorter would be my time to remain with them.