But he perceived that old things had passed away, and with them the need of the old instruments, and that what remained to be done for the black man required to be done with new means.
Grimké notes Garrison's recognition that new strategies were necessary for advancing the rights of Black Americans post-slavery.
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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.
To such an unconquerable will, to such an invincible faith obstacles vanish; the impossible becomes the attainable.
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