Frederick Douglass: “I found it hard to get credit in some quarters either for what I wrote or what I said.”

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

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

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

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