Frederick Douglass: “After thus fairly annihilating me, and arousing himself by his eloquence, he fiercely demanded what I wished him to do…”

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

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

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

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