Frederick Douglass: “A man who has not such an object, either in possession or in prospect, is a nobody and will never be anything else.”

The nation or people which shall comply with them will rise, and those which violate them will fall, and perhaps will disappear altogether.

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

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

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.