Frederick Douglass: “While she lived, I felt that I had a strong friend to plead for me in any emergency.”

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

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

The nation or people which shall comply with them will rise, and those which violate them will fall, and perhaps will disappear altogether.

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