Frederick Douglass declared that law, learning, religion, science, education, the word of God, and all virtues known among men are addressed not to color or race but to men, and that people are called neither to favor nor reject any variety of the human family on that basis. Speaking at Hillsdale College on January 21, 1863, he said that people are addressed not as Ethiopians, Caucasians, Mongolians, Afro-Americans, or Anglo-Americans, but as men, and that God and nature speak to manhood alone, on which ideas of duty and moral obligation are founded.