Frederick Douglass: “She either thought it unnecessary, or she lacked the depravity indispensable to shutting me up in mental darkness.”

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

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.

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

They cannot be coaxed or driven to vote with their enemies against their friends.