Archibald Henry Grimké: “How else could the great man be equal to his time and task?”

It would reappear as Negro serfdom unless placed in the way of utter extinction.

It is true many a cheek burns with shame in view of our national inconsistency, and many a heart bleeds for the miserable African.

During those dark years the blacks were much more sinned against than sinning.

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.