Frederick Douglass: “It had given me a view of my wretched condition, without the remedy.”

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

Every dollar you lay up, represents one day’s independence, one day of rest and security in the future.

Still another ground of hope I find in the fact that colored men are strong in their gratitude to benefactors, and firm in their political convictions.

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