Frederick Douglass: “Any man can say things that are true of Abraham Lincoln, but no man can say anything that is new of Abraham Lincoln.”

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.

This part of our destiny is in our own hands.

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.

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