Frederick Douglass: “It is not a bad thing to have individuals or nations do right though they do so from selfish motives.”

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

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

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

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