For colored people to acqure learnign in this country makes tyrants quake and tremble on theri sandy foundation.
                                                        David Walker

Life is a short walk.  There is so little time and so much living to achieve.

                                                                                       John Oliver Killens

At the botton of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.

                                                                                                 Booker T. Washington