I found it impossible to respect the religious profession of any who were under the dominion of this wicked prejudice, and I could not, therefore, feel that in joining them, I was joining a Christian church, at all.
Douglass explains his decision to leave a church that practiced racial segregation, asserting that such prejudice invalidated its claim to be Christian.
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