Frederick Douglass: “The sight of these always affected me powerfully.”

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

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

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

They cannot be coaxed or driven to vote with their enemies against their friends.