Frederick Douglass: “In addition to authors, poets, and scholars at home, the moral sense of the civilized world is with us.”

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

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.

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.