Archibald Henry Grimké: “His body nobly planned and proportioned was a fit servant of his lofty and indomitable mind.”

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

O Freedom! how are ye still born In the rude stable, in the manger nursed; What humble hands unbar those gates of morn Through which the splendors of the New Day burst.

I have always supposed that its spirit was directly opposed to everything in the shape of fraud and oppression.

When he had ceased speaking I said to those around me: 'That is a providential man; he is a prophet; he will shake our nation to its center, but he will shake slavery out of it.