Frederick Douglass: “The sentiment that brings us here to-day is one of the noblest that can stir and thrill the human heart.”

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

No power beneath the sky can make an ignorant, wasteful, and idle people prosperous, or a licentious people happy.

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

None now denies the ability of the colored race to acquire knowledge of anything which can be communicated to the human understanding by letters.