Frederick Douglass: “I had already the spirit of the movement, and only needed to understand its principles and measures.”

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.

Everywhere in the south the colored man is learning to read.

Still another ground of hope I find in the fact that colored men are strong in their gratitude to benefactors, and firm in their political convictions.