Archibald Henry Grimké: “Not to fight then he saw was but to provoke more horrible woes, to prevent which the man of Peace preached war…”

Lay not down your weapons until honorable terms are obtained.

He could not hold his peace; his message he was compelled to deliver in the ears of the nation whether its leaders would hear or forbear.

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.

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