Frederick Douglass: “Dark and terrible as is this picture, I hold it to be strictly true of the overwhelming mass of professed Christians in…”

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

To-day the negro, starting from nothing, pays taxes upon six millions in Georgia, and forty millions in Louisiana.

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

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.