Archibald Henry Grimké: “There was light on but one difficult way, the way of national righteousness.”

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

Under it we have the double moral standard and the double legal standard operating throughout that section with a vengeance.

Whenever there is a contest between the oppressed and the oppressor, the weapons being equal between the parties, God knows that my heart must be with the oppressed, and always against the oppressor.

It should make this a day of fasting and prayer, not of boisterous merriment and idle pageantry--a day of great lamentation, not of congratulatory joy.