Frederick Douglass: “The slave finds more of the milk of human kindness in the bosom of the savage Indian, than in the heart of his Christian…”

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

To-day the negro, starting from nothing, pays taxes upon six millions in Georgia, and forty millions in Louisiana.

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.