Archibald Henry Grimké: “The causes which have operated for fifty years to produce Negro criminals will some day, I trust, be traced without fear…”

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

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

It is true many a cheek burns with shame in view of our national inconsistency, and many a heart bleeds for the miserable African.

I was too proud to beg, and ashamed to borrow.