Archibald Henry Grimké: “Social and political reconstruction in those states it seems now must come from within and by voluntary action not from…”

At any rate they should hear what was resting upon his soul with the weight of a great woe, the force of a supreme command.

For myself, I had rather rob any bank to an indefinite amount than kidnap a fellow-being, or hold him in bondage; the sin would be less injurious to society, and less sinful in the sight of God.

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.

He saw that they were not essentially unlike other races--that there was nothing morally or intellectually peculiar about them, and that the evil or the good which they manifested was the common property of mankind in similar circumstances.