Frederick Douglass: “The laws of its life are spiritual, not carnal, and it must conform to these laws or it starves and dies.”

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

The nation or people which shall comply with them will rise, and those which violate them will fall, and perhaps will disappear altogether.

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

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