Frederick Douglass: “True men they were, who could accept welcome at no man’s table where I was refused.”

Taking all the circumstances into consideration, the colored people have no reason to despair.

It was born in the tempest and whirlwind of war, and has lived in a storm of violence and blood.

Some will be more successful than others, and poverty, in many cases, is the result of misfortune rather than of crime; but no race can afford to have all its members the victims of this misfortune, without being considered a worthless…

With money and property comes the means of knowledge and power.