Frederick Douglass: “It was a sad thing to me, that, loving each other as we had done, we must now take different roads.”

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

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

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.

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