Frederick Douglass: “The greatest progress made, however, and that which is necessarily the first in order of time and importance, has been…”

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.

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

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