Frederick Douglass: “I was grander upon my mother’s knee than a king upon his throne.”

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

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…

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

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