Frederick Douglass: “I looked into this kitchen with peculiar interest, and remembered that it was there I last saw my mother.”

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

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.

In any fair condition of things the men who till the soil will become proprietors of the soil.