Frederick Douglass: “It shows what can be done against wrong in the world, without the aid of armies on the earth or of angels in the sky.”

No power beneath the sky can make an ignorant, wasteful, and idle people prosperous, or a licentious people happy.

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.

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

The nation or people which shall comply with them will rise, and those which violate them will fall, and perhaps will disappear altogether.