Frederick Douglass: “It really seems that nothing of justice, liberty, or humanity can come to us except through tears and blood.”

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

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

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

The nation or people which shall comply with them will rise, and those which violate them will fall, and perhaps will disappear altogether.