Frederick Douglass: “If religion had any effect at all on him, it made him more cruel and hateful in all his ways.”

I wished it was possible I could remain small all my life, knowing that the sooner I grew large the shorter would be my time to remain with them.

True it is that this faith was many times shaken by passing events, but never destroyed.

We (the people of the North) are a charitable people, and in the excess of this feeling we were disposed to put the very best construction upon the strange behavior of our southern brethren.

Guilty or not guilty, to be accused was to be sure of a flogging.