The American people have this lesson to learn: That where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
Douglass warns that societal injustices lead to a breakdown of safety and security for all.
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It was in the air, and men breathed it and were permeated by it, often when they were quite unconscious of its presence.
It only abolished slavery where it did not exist, and left it intact where it did exist.
The friendless and hungry boy, in his extremest need, found himself in the strong protecting arms of his mother.
It was perhaps better for the country and for mankind that the good man could not know the end from the beginning.