Frederick Douglass: “They wielded the lash without any sense of responsibility.”

We are no longer four millions of slaves, but six millions of freemen.

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

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.

None now denies the ability of the colored race to acquire knowledge of anything which can be communicated to the human understanding by letters.