I love the pure, peaceable, and impartial Christianity of Christ: I therefore hate the corrupt, slaveholding, women-whipping, cradle-plundering, partial and hypocritical Christianity of this land.
Douglass articulates his profound distinction between the genuine teachings of Christ and the perverted, oppressive form of Christianity practiced by slaveholders in America.
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I believed I should get enough to eat at Covey’s, even if I suffered in other respects, and this to a hungry man is not a prospect to be regarded with indifference.
True it is that this faith was many times shaken by passing events, but never destroyed.