Frederick Douglass: “That which he most loved I most hated; and the very determination which he expressed to keep me in ignorance, only…”

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

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

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

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