Frederick Douglass: “What doth it profit a nation to gain the whole world if it shall lose its own soul?”

True it is that this faith was many times shaken by passing events, but never destroyed.

It had no interest in recognizing or preserving any of the ties that bind families together or to their homes.

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

Land is not worth much where there are no people to occupy it, and a mule is not worth much where there is no one to drive him.