Archibald Henry Grimké: “I am tired of words, tired of hearing strong things said, where there is no heart to carry them out.”

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…

I cannot conceive why a black man may not as reasonably object to my color, as I to his.

Our garb should be sack-cloth--our heads bowed in the dust--our supplications for the pardon and assistance of Heaven.

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