Frederick Douglass: “I am here, because you have an influence on America that no other nation can have.”

The hardships and dangers involved in the struggle give strength and toughness to the character, and enable it to stand firm in storm as well as in sunshine.

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

They were sent away empty-handed, without money, without friends, and without a foot of land to stand upon.

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