Frederick Douglass: “Scholarship, genius and devotion have hastened with poetry and eloquence, story and song to this simple altar of human…”

The friendless and hungry boy, in his extremest need, found himself in the strong protecting arms of his mother.

Human liberty excludes all idea of home and abroad.

Guilty or not guilty, to be accused was to be sure of a flogging.

The sentiment that brings us here to-day is one of the noblest that can stir and thrill the human heart.