Archibald Henry Grimké: “Here there was an apparent defeat for the Abolitionists, but the consequences which followed the outrage proved it a…”

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.

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

All these requisites were wanting to the man whose sole possession seemed an indomitable will, a faith in himself, and in the righteousness of his cause, which nothing could shake, nor disappointment nor difficulty, however great, was able…

Love was in their mouths and love was in their hearts.