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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