Let it be thundered around the world, that, in tyrant-killing, king hating, people-loving, democratic, Christian America, the seats of justice are filled with judges, who hold their office under an open and palpable bribe, and are bound, in deciding in the case of a man’s liberty, to hear only his accusers!
From his autobiography, this passage issues a global challenge, exposing the hypocrisy of America's self-proclaimed democratic and Christian values in the face of judicial corruption and injustice.
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The laws which determine the destinies of individuals and nations are impartial and eternal.
It was perhaps better for the country and for mankind that the good man could not know the end from the beginning.
This was a new and special revelation, dispelling a painful mystery against which my youthful understanding had struggled, and struggled in vain, to wit, the white man’s power to perpetuate the enslavement of the black man.