Frederick Douglass: “A scream for vengeance came up from all sections of the slave States and from great multitudes in the North.”

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

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

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

Everywhere in the south the colored man is learning to read.