Frederick Douglass: “Among all the great capitals of the world it is preëminently the capital of free institutions.”

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

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.

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