Frederick Douglass: “The supercilious contempt for the rights and feelings of the slave, and the petulance and bad humor which generally…”

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

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

The nation or people which shall comply with them will rise, and those which violate them will fall, and perhaps will disappear altogether.

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