Archibald Henry Grimké: “Ask Judge Lynch, ask the blind and murderous sex fury of white men, the red male rage of Southern mobs.”

I have always supposed that its spirit was directly opposed to everything in the shape of fraud and oppression.

Perhaps the common people would hearken to what the wise and powerful had rejected.

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.

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.