Frederick DOUGLASS: Educate your sons and daughters, send them to school, and show them that beside the cartridge box, the ballot box, and the jury box, you also have the knowledge box.

Frederick DOUGLASS: A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.

W.E.B. DU BOIS: Either the United States will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.