Frederick Douglass: “How could she, then, treat me as a brute, without a mighty struggle with all the noble powers of her own soul.”

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

To-day the negro, starting from nothing, pays taxes upon six millions in Georgia, and forty millions in Louisiana.

Everywhere in the south the colored man is learning to read.

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