Frederick Douglass: “But, fellow-citizens, I do not despair, and no power that I know of can make me despair of the ultimate triumph of…”

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

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

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

Nothing but the shot-gun or the bull-dozer’s whip can keep them from voting their convictions.