Frederick Douglass: “Of course it was impossible for me not to hope much for the abolition movement when I saw it supported by the Almighty…”

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

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

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.