Frederick Douglass: “Those who abolished slavery did their work, and did it well.”

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

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

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

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