Frederick Douglass: “Races that fail to do these things die politically and socially, and are only fit to die.”

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

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

The vote of the colored man, formerly beaten down and stamped out by intimidation, is now revived, sought, and defended by powerful allies, and this from no transient sentiment of the moment, but from the permanent laws controlling the…

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