Frederick Douglass: “A contest had in fact been going on in my mind for a long time, between the clear consciousness of right and the…”

I looked into this kitchen with peculiar interest, and remembered that it was there I last saw my mother.

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

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

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