Frederick Douglass: “It did produce sensation, but not enough to bring the murderess to punishment.”

An exceptionally poor and dependent people will be despised by the opulent and despise themselves.

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

Let us then, wherever we are, whether at the North or at the South, resolutely struggle on in the belief that there is a better day coming, and that we by patience, industry, uprightness, and economy may hasten that better day.

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