Frederick Douglass: “It is not only mock modesty, but mob modesty.”

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

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.

They cannot be coaxed or driven to vote with their enemies against their friends.

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