Frederick Douglass: “In the spirit of genuine patriotism, I warn the American people, by all that is just and honorable, to BEWARE!”

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

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

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

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