Frederick Douglass: “If any of these three millions find for themselves companions, and prove themselves honest, upright, virtuous persons to…”

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

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

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

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