Frederick Douglass: “A city slave is almost a freeman, compared with a slave on the plantation.”

The hardships and dangers involved in the struggle give strength and toughness to the character, and enable it to stand firm in storm as well as in sunshine.

The fact that we have endured wrongs and hardships, which would have destroyed any other race, and have increased in numbers and public consideration, ought to strengthen our faith in ourselves and our future.

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

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