Frederick Douglass: “The law gives the master absolute power over the slave.”

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.

The nation or people which shall comply with them will rise, and those which violate them will fall, and perhaps will disappear altogether.

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

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