You profess to believe that “of one blood God made all nations of men to dwell on the face of all the earth”—and hath commanded all men, everywhere, to love one another—yet you notoriously hate (and glory in your hatred!) all men whose skins are not colored like your own!

Douglass is indicting the hypocrisy of professed Christian universalism alongside practiced racial hatred. By quoting Acts 17:26 (“of one blood God made all nations…”) and pairing it with the Christian command to love, he frames racism not merely as a social failing but as a theological and moral contradiction. The second-person address (“You profess…yet you notoriously hate”) is characteristic of Douglass’s polemical style: it forces the audience—especially white Americans who claimed religious virtue—to confront the gap between creed and conduct. The parenthetical “(and glory in your hatred!)” sharpens the charge, suggesting that racial prejudice is not only tolerated but celebrated, making it a public sin rather than a private bias.