Frederick Douglass: “This would indeed be madness, but oppression will make even a wise man mad.”

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.

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

They cannot be coaxed or driven to vote with their enemies against their friends.