Frederick Douglass: “For, until the Negro is respected in America, he need not expect consideration elsewhere.”

None now denies the ability of the colored race to acquire knowledge of anything which can be communicated to the human understanding by letters.

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…

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

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