Frederick Douglass: “No people to whom liberty is given, can hold it as firmly and wear it as grandly as those who wrench their liberty from…”

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

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

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

They cannot be coaxed or driven to vote with their enemies against their friends.