Frederick Douglass: “The impression which I had received respecting the character and condition of the people of the north, I found to be…”

The nation or people which shall comply with them will rise, and those which violate them will fall, and perhaps will disappear altogether.

Let us then, wherever we are, whether at the North or at the South, resolutely struggle on in the belief that there is a better day coming, and that we by patience, industry, uprightness, and economy may hasten that better day.

A race which cannot save its earnings, which spends all it makes and goes in debt when it is sick, can never rise in the scale of civilization, no matter under what laws it may chance to be.

But whether it shall come late or come soon will depend mainly upon ourselves.