Frederick Douglass: “Public opinion seldom differs very widely from public practice.”

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.

In any fair condition of things the men who till the soil will become proprietors of the soil.

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.