Frederick Douglass: “That threat is now being sternly pursued and may yet be fully realised.”

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

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

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

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