Archibald Henry Grimké: “As it was in the beginning so it hath ever been, the world needs light.”

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

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.

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

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