Archibald Henry Grimké: “Then you had better let all your irons burn than neglect your duty to the slave.”

He could not hold his peace; his message he was compelled to deliver in the ears of the nation whether its leaders would hear or forbear.

Sirs, I am not come to tell you that slavery is a curse, debasing in its effects, cruel in its operations, fatal in its continuance.

During those dark years the blacks were much more sinned against than sinning.

I cannot conceive why a black man may not as reasonably object to my color, as I to his.