Frederick Douglass: “Of all men beneath the sky, the slaves, because most neglected and despised, were nearest and dearest to his great…”

With money and property comes the means of knowledge and power.

I will not listen, myself, and I would not have you listen to the nonsense, that no people can succeed in life among a people by whom they have been despised and oppressed.

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

Inhuman as was this treatment, it was the natural result of the bitter resentment felt by the old master class, and in view of it, the wonder is, not that the colored people of the South have done so little in the way of acquiring a…