Frederick Douglass: “It laughs at legal processes, courts and juries, and its red-handed murderers range abroad unchecked and unchallenged by…”

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

I wished it was possible I could remain small all my life, knowing that the sooner I grew large the shorter would be my time to remain with them.

I believed I should get enough to eat at Covey’s, even if I suffered in other respects, and this to a hungry man is not a prospect to be regarded with indifference.

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