Frederick Douglass: “I confess to a feeling allied to satisfaction at the prospect of a conflict between the North and the South.”

Let us then, wherever we are, whether at the North or at the South, resolutely struggle on in the belief that there is a better day coming, and that we by patience, industry, uprightness, and economy may hasten that better day.

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.

They were sent away empty-handed, without money, without friends, and without a foot of land to stand upon.