Frederick Douglass: “I never shall forget it whilst I remember any thing.”

A poverty-stricken class will be an ignorant and despised class, and no amount of sentiment can make it otherwise.

Everywhere in the south the colored man is learning to read.

Let us then, wherever we are, whether at the North or at the South, resolutely struggle on in the belief that there is a better day coming, and that we by patience, industry, uprightness, and economy may hasten that better day.

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