Frederick Douglass: “This argument was certainly good enough as against the church, but good for nothing as against the demands of justice…”

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

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

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

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