YES!' and I expressly called upon British Abolitionists to prove themselves the true friends of suffering humanity abroad, by showing that they were the best friend of suffering humanity at home." Truth, justice, duty, always overrode with…
Archibald Henry Grimké
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Archibald Henry Grimké was an African-American lawyer, intellectual, journalist, diplomat and community leader in the 19th and early 20th centuries. He graduated from freedmen's schools, Lincoln University in Pennsylvania, and Harvard Law School, and served as American Consul to the Dominican Republic from 1894 to 1898. He was an activist for the rights of Black Americans, working in Boston and Washington, D.C. He was a national vice-president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), as well as president of its Washington, D.C. chapter.
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And O that I had a voice louder than a thousand thunders, that it might shake the land and electrify the dead--the dead in sin, I mean--those slain by the hand of slavery.
Resolved, That the compact which exists between the North and the South is a covenant with death and an agreement with hell--involving both parties in atrocious criminality--and should be immediately annulled.
The only remedy that I can see for the disease is to be found in the dissolution of the patient....
Henceforth it (the Constitution) is dead to me, and I to it.
I am tired of words, tired of hearing strong things said, where there is no heart to carry them out.
We are groping in thick darkness; but it is that darkest hour which is said to precede the dawn of day.
It is to this effect: We must remain in the Union because it would be inhuman in us to turn our backs upon millions of slaves in the Southern States, and to leave them to their fate!
Men who have never been heard of in the anti-slavery ranks, or who are ever submitting to a compromise of principle, have their bowels wonderfully moved all at once with sympathy for the suffering slave!
Therefore, whenever commenced, I cannot but wish success to all slave insurrections....
Rather than see men wearing their chains, in a cowardly and servile spirit, I would as an advocate of peace, much rather see them breaking the head of the tyrant with their chains.
I was too proud to beg, and ashamed to borrow.