Archibald Henry Grimké: “They get always the best accommodations for themselves and families, while he gets the worst.”

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?

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

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

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.