Archibald Henry Grimké: “This is the meaning of the Negro's exclusion from dining-cars and from restaurants along the line of Southern railroads.”

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

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

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

And in this moral mud there bred apace bestiality and cruelty, superstition and sensuality, tyranny and fear--the black brood of man's inhumanity to man.