Frederick Douglass: “I am free to say that, had I been guided only by the promptings of my heart, I should in this controversy have followed…”

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

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

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.