Frederick Douglass: “True as a means of destroying slavery, it was like an attempt to bail out the ocean with a teaspoon, but the thought…”

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

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

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

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