Frederick Douglass: “But thus far, the government had not kept its promise, or the promise made for it.”

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

Still another ground of hope I find in the fact that colored men are strong in their gratitude to benefactors, and firm in their political 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.