Frederick Douglass: “Those who could not see any honest reasons for changing their views, as I had done, could not easily see any such…”

With money and property comes the means of knowledge and power.

The fact that we have endured wrongs and hardships, which would have destroyed any other race, and have increased in numbers and public consideration, ought to strengthen our faith in ourselves and our future.

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

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