Archibald Henry Grimké: “Is it any wonder that crime emerges out of such cruel and unequal conditions?”

It would reappear as Negro serfdom unless placed in the way of utter extinction.

It is a gangrene preying upon our vitals--an earthquake rumbling under our feet--a mine accumulating material for a national catastrophe.

When he had ceased speaking I said to those around me: 'That is a providential man; he is a prophet; he will shake our nation to its center, but he will shake slavery out of it.

Then you had better let all your irons burn than neglect your duty to the slave.