Frederick Douglass: “There is no flesh so despised as the negro’s flesh.”

No power beneath the sky can make an ignorant, wasteful, and idle people prosperous, or a licentious people happy.

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.

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

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