Frederick Douglass: “I say to these gentlemen, first protect the man and you will thereby protect education.”

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

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

To-day the negro, starting from nothing, pays taxes upon six millions in Georgia, and forty millions in Louisiana.

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