Archibald Henry Grimké: “This is the meaning of the Southern movement for segregating the races, of its jim-crow car laws and waiting-rooms.”

On every hand over against his paper rights as a citizen, the Negro faces facts which make his citizenship seem like a snare and a delusion.

I have always supposed that its spirit was directly opposed to everything in the shape of fraud and oppression.

With unerring moral instinct he had from the start placed his reliance "on nothing but the eternal principles of justice for the speedy overthrow of slavery.

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.