Archibald Henry Grimké: “For wherever he goes he carries the marks of his race with him, and that is the essence of his offense in America.”

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

Sirs, I am not come to tell you that slavery is a curse, debasing in its effects, cruel in its operations, fatal in its continuance.

This sounds singular in this land of the free and it is singular, for of no other class of American labor could it be said that its right to migrate from one state to another is actually obstructed by law and would be resisted by force.

I was too proud to beg, and ashamed to borrow.