Frederick Douglass: “Happily for us and for the honor of the Republic, the United States Constitution is just, liberal, and friendly.”

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

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

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.

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