How hard for an Englishman to do justice to an Irishman, for an Irishman to do justice to an Englishman, harder still for an American tainted by slavery to do justice to the Negro or the Negro's friends.
He highlights the complexities of mutual understanding and justice between different nationalities, particularly in the context of American slavery.
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The anti-slavery platform had performed its work, and my voice was no longer needed.
The good to be sought and the evil to be shunned were flung in the balance and weighed against each other.
It was in the air, and men breathed it and were permeated by it, often when they were quite unconscious of its presence.