Archibald Henry Grimké: “No other act in its whole history approaches it in simple grandeur of forgiveness and service.”

On every hand over against his paper rights as a citizen, the Negro faces facts which make his citizenship seem like a snare and a delusion.

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.

I cannot conceive why a black man may not as reasonably object to my color, as I to his.

I am invited to occupy a broader field, and to engage in a higher enterprise; that field embraces the whole country--that enterprise is in behalf of the slave population.