Frederick Douglass: “In this enthusiastic spirit I dropped into the ranks of freedom’s friends and went forth to the battle.”

In any fair condition of things the men who till the soil will become proprietors of the soil.

An exceptionally poor and dependent people will be despised by the opulent and despise themselves.

Inhuman as was this treatment, it was the natural result of the bitter resentment felt by the old master class, and in view of it, the wonder is, not that the colored people of the South have done so little in the way of acquiring a…

Every dollar you lay up, represents one day’s independence, one day of rest and security in the future.