Archibald Henry Grimké: “For he, like Phillips, stood for his absolute equality before the law.”

For myself, I had rather rob any bank to an indefinite amount than kidnap a fellow-being, or hold him in bondage; the sin would be less injurious to society, and less sinful in the sight of God.

He could not hold his peace; his message he was compelled to deliver in the ears of the nation whether its leaders would hear or forbear.

Is it any wonder that crime emerges out of such cruel and unequal conditions?

To such an unconquerable will, to such an invincible faith obstacles vanish; the impossible becomes the attainable.