Archibald Henry Grimké: “For great happiness like great suffering operates oftentimes as a moral purifier.”

Lay not down your weapons until honorable terms are obtained.

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.

Under it we have the double moral standard and the double legal standard operating throughout that section with a vengeance.

The South does not regard the Negro laborer then as undesirable but quite the contrary--only it wants to retain possession of it on its own terms, not on those advantageous to that labor.