To: Prudence Crandall and her African American students

​​"I am not trying to give African Americans what they want, but what was rightfully theirs."
-Perspective of Prudence

"To make a change, is to be the difference."
-Perspective of Prudence Crandall

​"I am no different, I just have a different perspective."
-Perspective of Prudence

"The reason why no one could see what my students were going through is not because they couldn't, but because they didn't want to."
-Perspective of Prudence Crandall

"I am not different, I was just born with something others will never have."
-Perspective of her African American students