Frederick Douglass: “If life is more than breath and the “quick round of blood,” I lived more in that one day than in a year of my slave…”

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.

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

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