Frederick Douglass: “Than this, there was never a surrender more dishonorable, more ungrateful, or more cowardly.”

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.

If I have had kicks, I have also had kindness.

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