Frederick Douglass: “Public opinion in such a quarter, the reader will see, is not likely to very efficient in protecting the slave from…”

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.

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.

Everywhere in the south the colored man is learning to read.