Frederick Douglass: “The thought that men are made for other and better uses than slavery throve best under the gentle treatment of a kind…”

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

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

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.