Frederick Douglass: “In their view, citizens are neither black nor white, and all are equals.”

Still another ground of hope I find in the fact that colored men are strong in their gratitude to benefactors, and firm in their political convictions.

None now denies the ability of the colored race to acquire knowledge of anything which can be communicated to the human understanding by letters.

We are no longer four millions of slaves, but six millions of freemen.

To-day the negro, starting from nothing, pays taxes upon six millions in Georgia, and forty millions in Louisiana.