"Think you, dear reader, when that day comes, the most 'rapid abolitionist' will say -- 'Behold, I saw all this while on the earth'? Will he not rather say, 'Oh, who has conceived the breadth and depth of this moral malaria, this putrescent plague-spot?' Perhaps the pioneers in the slave's cause will be as much surprised as any to find that with all their looking, there remained so much unseen."
- Sojourner Truth and Olive Gilbert