Frederick Douglass: “They are no longer required to defend with their lips what they must have condemned in their hearts.”

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

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

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

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