Frederick Douglass: “It elevated the nation in its own eyes and in the eyes of the civilized world, and roused a feeling of patriotism and…”

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.

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.

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