Frederick Douglass: “I was for once made glad by a view of extreme wealth, without being saddened by seeing extreme poverty.”

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

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.

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

Pardon me, therefore, for urging upon you, my people, the importance of saving your earnings; of denying yourselves in the present, that you may have something in the future, of consuming less for yourselves that your children may have a…