Frederick Douglass: “Starvation and death stared him in the face and marked him for their victim.”

No word of retaliation when a black man is slain by a rebel in cold blood.

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

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

Food to the indolent is poison, not sustenance.