Frederick Douglass: “Put us in Kansas or in Africa, and until we learn to save more than we spend, we are sure to sink and perish.”

They cannot be coaxed or driven to vote with their enemies against their friends.

No power beneath the sky can make an ignorant, wasteful, and idle people prosperous, or a licentious people happy.

To-day the negro, starting from nothing, pays taxes upon six millions in Georgia, and forty millions in Louisiana.

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