Notwithstanding the great and all-abounding darkness of our past, the clouds that still overhang us in the moral and social sky, the defects inherited from a bygone condition of servitude, it is the faith of my soul that this brighter and better day will yet come.
From his autobiography, Douglass expresses profound optimism for a better future, acknowledging the historical struggles and lingering societal issues.
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For the moment the northern lamb was transformed into a lion, and his roar was terrible.
Land is not worth much where there are no people to occupy it, and a mule is not worth much where there is no one to drive him.
It was perhaps better for the country and for mankind that the good man could not know the end from the beginning.
But we are not here to applaud manly courage, save as it has been displayed in a noble cause.