Frederick Douglass: “For of all slaveholders with whom I have ever met, religious slaveholders are the worst.”

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.

Everywhere in the south the colored man is learning to read.

In any fair condition of things the men who till the soil will become proprietors of the soil.

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