| | 1 | Author: | Douglass, Frederick, 1817?-1895 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | "The Color Line"  | | | | Published: | 1995 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | Few evils are less accessible to the force of reason, or more
tenacious of life and power, than a long-standing prejudice. It is
a moral disorder, which creates the conditions necessary to its own
existence, and fortifies itself by refusing all contradiction. It
paints a hateful picture according to its own diseased imagination,
and distorts the features of the fancied original to suit the
portrait. As those who believe in the visibility of ghosts can
easily see them, so it is always easy to see repulsive qualities in
those we despise and hate. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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