Archibald Henry Grimké: “Is it any wonder that crime emerges out of such cruel and unequal conditions?”

With unerring moral instinct he had from the start placed his reliance "on nothing but the eternal principles of justice for the speedy overthrow of slavery.

Lay not down your weapons until honorable terms are obtained.

Perhaps the common people would hearken to what the wise and powerful had rejected.

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.