Frederick Douglass: “His words were few, full of holy fire, and straight to the point.”

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

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

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.

No power beneath the sky can make an ignorant, wasteful, and idle people prosperous, or a licentious people happy.