Frederick Douglass: “Some of these tend to dim the lustre of the American name, and chill the hopes once entertained for the cause of…”

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

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

Nothing but the shot-gun or the bull-dozer’s whip can keep them from voting their convictions.

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