Archibald Henry Grimké: “His political influence in Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina and Virginia is…”

I am invited to occupy a broader field, and to engage in a higher enterprise; that field embraces the whole country--that enterprise is in behalf of the slave population.

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.

Lay not down your weapons until honorable terms are obtained.

Pray, sir, is it a careful desire to fulfill the Scriptures, or to make money, that induces you to hold your fellow-men in bondage?