The American church is saying with the spirit of the unseeing Peter of old, "Not so Lord, we have never accepted any man who is brown or black or yellow as really our brother, for we are white and Thou hast made us of different clay, of purer blood than all these millions of brown and black and yellow peoples.
This quote illustrates Grimké's condemnation of the church's refusal to accept individuals of different races as equals.
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