We tolerated slavery and it has cost us a million graves, and it may be that lawless murder now raging, if permitted to go on, may yet bring the red hand of vengeance, not only on the reverend head of age, and upon the heads of helpless women, but upon even the innocent babes in the cradle.
Douglass warns of the dire consequences of allowing violence and injustice to persist in society, highlighting the potential for widespread suffering.
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