Archibald Henry Grimké: “For members of an inferior caste would by the force of circumstances, law, or no law, be deprived of certain rights…”

And in this moral mud there bred apace bestiality and cruelty, superstition and sensuality, tyranny and fear--the black brood of man's inhumanity to man.

My friends were prodigal of pity, but of nothing else.

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

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…