Frederick Douglass: “Wonderfully tenacious is the taint of a great wrong.”

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

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

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

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