The family quilts become this focal point. Wangero (Dee) has already claimed several items that Mama and Maggie still use regularly so that she can "do something artistic" with them. She is treating heritage like something that is past and, moreover, like something that she can hang on the wall and show off.
The significance of this quote is Montag's realization of what his job is actually about and what it implies. He became a fireman because he was meant to. However, he is now haunted by this new feeling and does not know anymore what is right and what is wrong.
As a former slave, Frederick Douglass felt that education is the only way to break the chains of slavery. An educated man is free from ignorance and cannot be enslaved, so slaves should strive to get educated by any means possible.
