Archibald Henry Grimké: “A great passion for freedom and righteousness irradiates like a central light the whole memorable document.”

My friends were prodigal of pity, but of nothing else.

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.

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.

I was too proud to beg, and ashamed to borrow.