Frederick Douglass: “To admit that there are such men among us is a disagreeable and humiliating confession.”

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

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

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

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