Frederick Douglass: “Lawless vengeance is beginning to be visited upon white men as well as black.”

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

The vote of the colored man, formerly beaten down and stamped out by intimidation, is now revived, sought, and defended by powerful allies, and this from no transient sentiment of the moment, but from the permanent laws controlling the…

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.