Frederick Douglass: “He had spoken great words in the face of death and the champions of slavery.”

A poverty-stricken class will be an ignorant and despised class, and no amount of sentiment can make it otherwise.

Greatness does not come to any people on flowery beds of ease.

I will not listen, myself, and I would not have you listen to the nonsense, that no people can succeed in life among a people by whom they have been despised and oppressed.

Notwithstanding the great and all-abounding darkness of our past, the clouds that still overhang us in the moral and social sky, the defects inherited from a bygone condition of servitude, it is the faith of my soul that this brighter and…