Frederick Douglass: “Quiet bondage was felt to be better than the doubts, fears and uncertainties, which now so sadly perplexed and disturbed…”

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.

Another ground of hope for our race is in the progress of education.

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

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