Frederick Douglass: “To say, “I am a Roman citizen!” could once arrest the bloody scourge and cause the brutal tyrant to turn pale.”

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.

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

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

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