Frederick Douglass: “The moral which I gained from the dialogue was the power of truth over the conscience of even a slaveholder.”

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

The vote of the colored man, formerly beaten down and stamped out by intimidation, is now revived, sought, and defended by powerful allies, and this from no transient sentiment of the moment, but from the permanent laws controlling the…

Everywhere in the south the colored man is learning to read.

The nation or people which shall comply with them will rise, and those which violate them will fall, and perhaps will disappear altogether.