Frederick Douglass: “Wolsey could not tell Cromwell to fling away ambition properly only when he had flung away his own.”

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

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

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.