Archibald Henry Grimké: “Henceforth it (the Constitution) is dead to me, and I to it.”

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

No body of men on the face of the earth deserve their charities, and prayers, and united assistance so much as the slaves of this country; and yet they are almost entirely neglected.

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

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