Frederick Douglass: “If cast down, I have been exalted; and the latter experience has, after all, far exceeded the former.”

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

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

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.

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