Archibald Henry Grimké: “The only remedy that I can see for the disease is to be found in the dissolution of the patient....”

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.

During those dark years the blacks were much more sinned against than sinning.

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

It would reappear as Negro serfdom unless placed in the way of utter extinction.