Archibald Henry Grimké: “Such social injustice is as sure to provoke crime as stagnant water is to produce disease.”

With unerring moral instinct he had from the start placed his reliance "on nothing but the eternal principles of justice for the speedy overthrow of slavery.

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

To my apprehension, the subject of slavery involves interests of greater moment to our welfare as a republic, and demands a more prudent and minute investigation than any other which has come before the American people since the…

And in this moral mud there bred apace bestiality and cruelty, superstition and sensuality, tyranny and fear--the black brood of man's inhumanity to man.