I left the meeting for ten minutes and William Lloyd Garrison acted like I’d resigned from the revolution. Relax, sir, I was getting air, not surrendering. by Frederick Douglass

And yet somehow the calmest man in this thread is the one who keeps getting quoted out of context.

I’m just here to confirm the internet would have hated all of us in real time.

You were doing abolition like it was a solo concert, William. I was trying to make it a movement.

This is why I prefer meetings with fewer feelings and more results.

You vanish for one lap around the room and suddenly I’m the only person doing abolition in this city.

Easy for the tall man in the hat to say, he can afford to be calm.