Frederick Douglass: “For a single biscuit, any of my hungry little comrades would give me a lesson more valuable to me than bread.”

To make a man a slave was to rob him of moral responsibility.

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

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

But we are not here to applaud manly courage, save as it has been displayed in a noble cause.