Frederick Douglass: “Though I am a party man, to me parties are valuable only as they subserve the ends of good government.”

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

The nation or people which shall comply with them will rise, and those which violate them will fall, and perhaps will disappear altogether.

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…

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