Frederick Douglass: “There is no degradation, no loss of self-respect, in asking this aid, considering the circumstances of these people.”

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

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

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

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