Archibald Henry Grimké: “There was light on but one difficult way, the way of national righteousness.”

To my apprehension, the subject of slavery involves interests of greater moment to our welfare as a republic, and demands a more prudent and minute investigation than any other which has come before the American people since the…

Under it we have the double moral standard and the double legal standard operating throughout that section with a vengeance.

Sirs, I am not come to tell you that slavery is a curse, debasing in its effects, cruel in its operations, fatal in its continuance.

To such an unconquerable will, to such an invincible faith obstacles vanish; the impossible becomes the attainable.