Frederick Douglass: “It remains now to be seen whether we have the needed courage to have that cause entirely removed from the Republic.”

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

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

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

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