Frederick Douglass: “I could not always obey, for I was now reading and thinking.”

This part of our destiny is in our own hands.

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

Greatness does not come to any people on flowery beds of ease.

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.