Existing comment:
"Once let the black man get upon his person the brass letters US, let him get an eagle on his button, and a musket on his shoulder, and bullets in his pocket, and there is no power on earth or under the earth which can deny that he has earned the right of citizenship [in the United States]."
-- Frederick Douglass, in his 1863 speech, "Should the Negro Enlist in the Union Army?" |