Frederick Douglass: “The rich planter can afford to learn politics in the parlor, and to dispense with religion altogether.”

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

We are no longer four millions of slaves, but six millions of freemen.

The vote of the colored man, formerly beaten down and stamped out by intimidation, is now revived, sought, and defended by powerful allies, and this from no transient sentiment of the moment, but from the permanent laws controlling the…

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.