Frederick Douglass: “The chances are that not even an innocent Negro so charged would be allowed to escape.”

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

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

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

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