Never was there a clearer case of “stealing the livery of the court of heaven to serve the devil in.” I am filled with unutterable loathing when I contemplate the religious pomp and show, together with the horrible inconsistencies, which every where surround me.
Abolitionist, orator
Appendix to Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself
1845
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"Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them."
Strange & Unusual"I was sometimes prompted to take my life, and that of Covey, but was prevented by a combination of hope and fear."
Shocking"John Brown's zeal in the cause of freedom was infinitely superior to mine. Mine was as the taper light; his was as the burning sun. I could live for the slave; John Brown could die for him."
Shocking"Should a slave, when assaulted, but raise his hand in self defense, the white assaulting party is fully justified by southern, or Maryland, public opinion, in shooting the slave down."
Controversial"The fact is, the people of the South are not more in favor of slavery, than the people of the North are opposed to it."
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