Frederick Douglass: “Land is not worth much where there are no people to occupy it, and a mule is not worth much where there is no one to…”

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

Another ground of hope for our race is in the progress of education.

To-day the negro, starting from nothing, pays taxes upon six millions in Georgia, and forty millions in Louisiana.

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