Frederick Douglass: “Greatness does not come to any people on flowery beds of ease.”

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

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

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.

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