Archibald Henry Grimké: “The mob burns Negroes and their property almost everywhere in the South with absolute impunity.”

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.

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.

I would not take the word of a Southern Court on this point.

It should make this a day of fasting and prayer, not of boisterous merriment and idle pageantry--a day of great lamentation, not of congratulatory joy.