Frederick Douglass: “For a single biscuit, any of my hungry little comrades would give me a lesson more valuable to me than bread.”

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

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

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

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