Frederick Douglass: “Thus early, I got a foretaste of that painful uncertainty which slavery brings to the ordinary lot of mortals.”

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

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

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

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.