Frederick Douglass: “I could see no reason why I should, at the end of each week, pour the reward of my toil into the purse of my master.”

Everywhere in the south the colored man is learning to read.

No people to whom liberty is given, can hold it as firmly and wear it as grandly as those who wrench their liberty from the iron hand of the tyrant.

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

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