Archibald Henry Grimké: “O Freedom! how are ye still born In the rude stable, in the manger nursed; What humble hands unbar those gates of morn…”

No body of men on the face of the earth deserve their charities, and prayers, and united assistance so much as the slaves of this country; and yet they are almost entirely neglected.

I have always supposed that its spirit was directly opposed to everything in the shape of fraud and oppression.

With unerring moral instinct he had from the start placed his reliance "on nothing but the eternal principles of justice for the speedy overthrow of slavery.

This sounds amazing and it is amazing because it fits the Negro's case so exactly, because it is an accurate description of his condition as an agricultural laborer in many of the Southern states.