Archibald Henry Grimké: “And O that I had a voice louder than a thousand thunders, that it might shake the land and electrify the dead--the dead…”

Whenever there is a contest between the oppressed and the oppressor, the weapons being equal between the parties, God knows that my heart must be with the oppressed, and always against the oppressor.

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

Lay not down your weapons until honorable terms are obtained.

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.