Frederick Douglass: “I apply to them the legal maxim, “False in one, false in all.” Especially do I apply this maxim when the conduct of the…”

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

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

The vote of the colored man, formerly beaten down and stamped out by intimidation, is now revived, sought, and defended by powerful allies, and this from no transient sentiment of the moment, but from the permanent laws controlling the…

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