Frederick Douglass: “Everywhere in this country, it is safe to speak of this foreign slave trade as a most inhuman traffic, opposed alike to…”

Still another ground of hope I find in the fact that colored men are strong in their gratitude to benefactors, and firm in their political convictions.

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.

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