It was human for the American people to hate a class whom they had so deeply wronged, and altogether human for them to justify their atrocious treatment by blackening before the world the reputation of the said class.
Grimké critiques the American people's tendency to justify their mistreatment of Black individuals by tarnishing their reputation.
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But ignorance is a breeder of crime just as poverty is.
To such an unconquerable will, to such an invincible faith obstacles vanish; the impossible becomes the attainable.
I cannot conceive why a black man may not as reasonably object to my color, as I to his.
Is it any wonder that crime emerges out of such cruel and unequal conditions?