On the record
They’ll read and sing a sacred song, And make a prayer both loud and long, And teach the right and do the wrong, Hailing the brother, sister throng, With words of heavenly union.
Said by
Frederick Douglass
Source
gutenberg.orgFrederick Douglass: “They’ll read and sing a sacred song, And make a prayer both loud and long, And teach the right and do the wrong, Hailing…”
Editor's note · Context
Douglass critiques the disconnect between religious practices and the moral actions of those who participate in them.
Share
More from Frederick Douglass
Jan 1, 1881
In any fair condition of things the men who till the soil will become proprietors of the soil.
Jan 1, 1881
They cannot be coaxed or driven to vote with their enemies against their friends.
Jan 1, 1881
None now denies the ability of the colored race to acquire knowledge of anything which can be communicated to the human understanding by letters.