Archibald Henry Grimké: “The wonder is that the colored criminal class is not larger and more dangerous to person and property.”

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

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.

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

He saw that they were not essentially unlike other races--that there was nothing morally or intellectually peculiar about them, and that the evil or the good which they manifested was the common property of mankind in similar circumstances.