Frederick Douglass: “Their object seems to be, to disgust their slaves with freedom, by plunging them into the lowest depths of dissipation.”

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…

No people to whom liberty is given, can hold it as firmly and wear it as grandly as those who wrench their liberty from the iron hand of the tyrant.

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

With money and property comes the means of knowledge and power.