Archibald Henry Grimké: “Nor did they get any training in personal and civic righteousness from their own leaders of either race.”

He saw that they were not essentially unlike other races--that there was nothing morally or intellectually peculiar about them, and that the evil or the good which they manifested was the common property of mankind in similar circumstances.

Whenever there is a contest between the oppressed and the oppressor, the weapons being equal between the parties, God knows that my heart must be with the oppressed, and always against the oppressor.

But ignorance is a breeder of crime just as poverty is.

It is true many a cheek burns with shame in view of our national inconsistency, and many a heart bleeds for the miserable African.