Frederick Douglass: “Education, the sheet anchor of safety to society where liberty and justice are secure, is a dangerous thing to society…”

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

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

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

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