"I do not now that I am an evolutionist, but to this extent I am one. I certainly have more patience with those who trace mankind upward from a low condition, even from the lower animals, than with those that start him at a high point of perfection and conduct him to the level with the brutes. I have no sympathy with a theory that starts man in heaven and stops him in hell."
- Frederick Douglass, ‘“It Moves,” or the Philosophy of Reform: An Address Delivered in Washington, D.C., on 20 November 1883’, in J.W. Blassingame and J.R. McKivigan (eds.), The Frederick Douglass Papers, ser. 1, vol. V (New Haven, 1992), 124-45 at 129
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