Frederick Douglass: “A slanderous charge against Negro morality has gone forth throughout the world and has been widely credited.”

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

Still another ground of hope I find in the fact that colored men are strong in their gratitude to benefactors, and firm in their political convictions.

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

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