Frederick Douglass: “They told a tale which was then altogether beyond my feeble comprehension; they were tones, loud, long and deep…”

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

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

We are no longer four millions of slaves, but six millions of freemen.

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