Although the delegates recognized that this would probably be the Association's final meeting, Frederick Douglass made a last minute appeal to his white sisters: When women, because they are women, are dragged from their homes and hung upon lamp posts; when their children are torn from their arms and their brains dashed upon the pavement; when they are objects of insult and outrage at every turn; when they are in danger of having their homes burnt down over their heads; when their children are not allowed to enter schools; then they will have the same urgency to obtain the ballot.