Archibald Henry Grimké: “Citizenship of the one caste would not mean the same thing as citizenship of the other.”

Then you had better let all your irons burn than neglect your duty to the slave.

This sounds amazing and it is amazing because it fits the Negro's case so exactly, because it is an accurate description of his condition as an agricultural laborer in many of the Southern states.

To such an unconquerable will, to such an invincible faith obstacles vanish; the impossible becomes the attainable.

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