Frederick Douglass: “You know that liberty given is never so precious as liberty sought for and fought for.”

Another ground of hope for our race is in the progress of education.

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

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

They cannot be coaxed or driven to vote with their enemies against their friends.