Frederick Douglass: “His assailants know this and know that he has never acted apart from the whole American people.”

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

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

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

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.