Frederick Douglass: “This argument was certainly good enough as against the church, but good for nothing as against the demands of justice…”

With money and property comes the means of knowledge and power.

But whether it shall come late or come soon will depend mainly upon ourselves.

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

The old slave quarter that had before sheltered them, and the fields that had yielded them corn, were now denied them.