Frederick Douglass: “It cannot be that I shall live and die a slave.”

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

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

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

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