If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle.

Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.

We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.

Poverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US.

These dear souls came not to Sabbath school because it was popular to do so, nor did I teach them because it was reputable to be thus engaged. Every moment they spent in that school, they were liable to be taken up, and given thirty-nine lashes. They came because they wished to learn. Their minds had been starved by their cruel masters. They had been shut up in mental darkness. I taught them, because it was the delight of my soul to be doing something that looked like the bettering the condition of my race

It is the mission of the printer to diffuse light and knowledge by a judicious intermingling of black with white.

Let us render the tyrant no aid.