Frederick Douglass: “I nevertheless remembered their words and their advice, and looked forward to an escape to the north, as a possible…”

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.

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

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