Frederick Douglass: “In all things noble which he attempted, his own meanness shone most conspicuous.”

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

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

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

To-day the negro, starting from nothing, pays taxes upon six millions in Georgia, and forty millions in Louisiana.