I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, and that his justice cannot sleep forever.” Such is the warning voice of Thomas Jefferson; and every day’s experience since its utterance until now, confirms its wisdom, and commends its truth.
Douglass reflects on the moral implications of justice and the fate of a nation that ignores it.
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The good to be sought and the evil to be shunned were flung in the balance and weighed against each other.
Treason had shot its poisonous roots deeper, and had spread its death-dealing branches further than any northern calculation had covered.
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.
His iron sentences, cold and harsh, sunk like heavy weights deep into my heart, and stirred up within me a rebellion not soon to be allayed.