Frederick Douglass: “A man’s troubles are always half disposed of, when he finds endurance his only remedy.”

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

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

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.

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