Frederick Douglass: “Without boasting in advance, but relying upon the goodness of my cause, I will say here I am ready to confront…”

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

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.

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