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

We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is WORK! WORK!! WORK!!! WORK!!!!

Once you read, you will be free forever.

Having despised us, it is not strange that Americans should seek to render us despicable; having enslaved us, it is natural that they should strive to prove us unfit for freedom; having denounced us as indolent, it is not strange that they should cripple our enterprises.

Go where you may, search where you will, roam through all of the monarchies and despotisms of the old world, travel through South America, search out every abuse, and when you have found the last, lay your facts by the side of the everyday practices of this nation, and you will say with me that, for revolting barbarity and shameless hypocrisy, America reigns without a rival.

Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.

Liberty for all; chains for none.