I love the pure, peaceable, and impartial Christianity of Christ: I therefore hate the corrupt, slaveholding, women-whipping, cradle-plundering, partial and hypocritical Christianity of this land.
Douglass articulates his profound distinction between the genuine teachings of Christ and the perverted, oppressive form of Christianity practiced by slaveholders in America.
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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.
Treason had shot its poisonous roots deeper, and had spread its death-dealing branches further than any northern calculation had covered.
It was perhaps better for the country and for mankind that the good man could not know the end from the beginning.