The American people and the Government at Washington may refuse to recognize it for a time but the inexorable logic of events will force it upon them in the end; that the war now being waged in this land is a war for and against slavery.


On the American Civil War (1861); as quoted in Afro-American Writing: An Anthology of Prose and Poetry, by Richard A. Long.

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Frederick Douglass Quotes

The American people and the Government at Washington may refuse to recognize it for a time but the inexorable logic of events will force it upon them ...

The American people and the Government at Washington may refuse to recognize it for a time but the inexorable logic of events will force it upon them ...

The American people and the Government at Washington may refuse to recognize it for a time but the inexorable logic of events will force it upon them ...

The American people and the Government at Washington may refuse to recognize it for a time but the inexorable logic of events will force it upon them ...