Frederick Douglass: “One generation cannot safely rest on the achievements of another, and ought not so to rest.”

Nothing but the shot-gun or the bull-dozer’s whip can keep them from voting their convictions.

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.

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