Frederick Douglass: “He seemed to take pleasure in manifesting his fiendish barbarity.”

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.

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

It was born in the tempest and whirlwind of war, and has lived in a storm of violence and blood.

I will not listen, myself, and I would not have you listen to the nonsense, that no people can succeed in life among a people by whom they have been despised and oppressed.