Frederick Douglass: “That good old maxim, which has come down to us from revolutionary times, that error may be safely tolerated, while truth…”

We are no longer four millions of slaves, but six millions of freemen.

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

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.