I have always supposed that its spirit was directly opposed to everything in the shape of fraud and oppression.
Archibald Henry Grimké: “I have always supposed that its spirit was directly opposed to everything in the shape of fraud and oppression.”
Editor's note · Context
Grimké expresses his belief that the spirit of the Bible opposes fraud and oppression, aligning with his abolitionist views.
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And this one thing needful, I believe, the Progressive Party brings to the solution of the problem, and that it formed the underlying motive and the statesmanlike purpose of the action at Chicago last August of Theodore Roosevelt.
Such a proposition, the Republican Party is incapable of making for reasons already pointed out, and the Democratic Party for other and obvious reasons is precluded from offering.
And politics is business, is the big business is it not, or ought it not to be the big business of all self governing peoples, who would maintain justice and freedom for themselves and transmit them unimpaired to their posterity?
There must be added to them this something else, this one thing needful to render them effective to save the blacks from the evil consequences of their race ignorance, and the whites from the evil consequences of their race prejudice.