Old as the everlasting hills; immovable as the throne of God; and certain as the purposes of eternal power, against all hinderances, and against all delays, and despite all the mutations of human instrumentalities, it is the faith of my soul, that this anti-slavery cause will triumph.
From his autobiography, Douglass expresses his profound and unwavering conviction in the ultimate victory of the anti-slavery cause, despite all obstacles.
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The friendless and hungry boy, in his extremest need, found himself in the strong protecting arms of his mother.
Knowledge unfits a child to be a slave.” I instinctively assented to the proposition, and from that moment I understood the direct pathway from slavery to freedom.
But we are not here to applaud manly courage, save as it has been displayed in a noble cause.
Father he might be, and not be husband, and could sell his own child without incurring reproach, if in its veins coursed one drop of African blood.