Frederick Douglass: “It was not always convenient to steal from master, and the same reason why I might, innocently, steal from him, did not…”

Old and young, sick and well, were turned loose to the open sky, naked to their enemies.

Inhuman as was this treatment, it was the natural result of the bitter resentment felt by the old master class, and in view of it, the wonder is, not that the colored people of the South have done so little in the way of acquiring a…

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…

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