Frederick Douglass: “Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.”

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.

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

No power beneath the sky can make an ignorant, wasteful, and idle people prosperous, or a licentious people happy.

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