Frederick Douglass: “They had their own opinions, were independent, and called no man master.”

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

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.

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