Archibald Henry Grimké: “The book of the Genesis of this man's crimes awaits to be written by an impartial and sympathetic seeker after truth.”

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

But ignorance is a breeder of crime just as poverty is.

All these requisites were wanting to the man whose sole possession seemed an indomitable will, a faith in himself, and in the righteousness of his cause, which nothing could shake, nor disappointment nor difficulty, however great, was able…

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.