Frederick Douglass: “To talk to those imps about justice and mercy, would have been as absurd as to reason with bears and tigers.”

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.

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

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.