Frederick Douglass: “It is sometimes said that we slaves do not love and confide in each other.”

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

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

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

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