Frederick Douglass: “I expected to have been safe in a land of freedom; but now I was covered with gloom, sunk down to the utmost despair.”

The old slave quarter that had before sheltered them, and the fields that had yielded them corn, were now denied them.

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

Greatness does not come to any people on flowery beds of ease.

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