Frederick Douglass: “Seized with a determination to learn to read, at any cost, I hit upon many expedients to accomplish the desired end.”

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

We are no longer four millions of slaves, but six millions of freemen.

Another ground of hope for our race is in the progress of education.

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