Frederick Douglass: “The thought of being only a creature of the present and the past troubled me, and I longed to have a future--a future…”

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

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.

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