Frederick Douglass: “The grim horrors of slavery rise in all their ghastly terror before me; the wails of millions pierce my heart and chill…”

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

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.

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

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