Frederick Douglass: “What have I, or those I represent, to do with your national independence?”

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.

Another ground of hope for our race is in the progress of education.

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