Frederick Douglass: “Do not make illiteracy a bar to the ballot, but make the ballot a bar to illiteracy.”

In any fair condition of things the men who till the soil will become proprietors of the soil.

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

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

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