Archibald Henry Grimké: “Slavery must be dispossessed, its extension must be resisted.”

I cannot conceive why a black man may not as reasonably object to my color, as I to his.

It is a gangrene preying upon our vitals--an earthquake rumbling under our feet--a mine accumulating material for a national catastrophe.

On every hand over against his paper rights as a citizen, the Negro faces facts which make his citizenship seem like a snare and a delusion.

And in this moral mud there bred apace bestiality and cruelty, superstition and sensuality, tyranny and fear--the black brood of man's inhumanity to man.