سأل الجميع السؤال: «ماذا نفعل بالزنوج؟» ولي جواب واحد منذ البداية: لا تفعلوا بنا شيئاً! فما فعلتموه بنا قد أحدث الضرر فينا. لا تفعلوا بنا شيئاً!

“Everybody has asked the question . . . 'What shall we do with the Negro?' I have had but one answer from the beginning. Do nothing with us! Your doing with us has already played the mischief with us. Do nothing with us!”Frederick Douglass — Great Speeches by Frederick Douglass (2013)