Archibald Henry Grimké: “Under this society there grew up two moral standards and two legal standards for the government of the races.”

I am invited to occupy a broader field, and to engage in a higher enterprise; that field embraces the whole country--that enterprise is in behalf of the slave population.

I was too proud to beg, and ashamed to borrow.

Whenever there is a contest between the oppressed and the oppressor, the weapons being equal between the parties, God knows that my heart must be with the oppressed, and always against the oppressor.

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