Archibald Henry Grimké: “What was true of the Greek Demigod was likewise true of Charles Sumner.”

But ignorance is a breeder of crime just as poverty is.

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

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.

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…