Any Southern man, who is honest and is frank enough to talk on the subject, will tell you that he has no such idea as we have of the sacredness of human rights, and especially, as I have said, of the life of the Negro.
Douglass asserts that many Southern individuals do not share the same values regarding human rights, particularly for Black people.
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It was perhaps better for the country and for mankind that the good man could not know the end from the beginning.
True it is that this faith was many times shaken by passing events, but never destroyed.