Frederick Douglass: “Asleep or awake, at work or at rest, in church or market, he was liable to surprise and capture.”

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

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

In any fair condition of things the men who till the soil will become proprietors of the soil.

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