Frederick Douglass: “A free state around me, and a free earth under my feet!”

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

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.

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

Some will be more successful than others, and poverty, in many cases, is the result of misfortune rather than of crime; but no race can afford to have all its members the victims of this misfortune, without being considered a worthless…