On the record
Instead of kindness of the one race to the other there has been increasing ill-will and active injustice as of one enemy to another.
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Archibald Henry Grimké
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gutenberg.orgArchibald Henry Grimké: “Instead of kindness of the one race to the other there has been increasing ill-will and active injustice as of one enemy…”
Editor's note · Context
Grimké asserts that the relationship between races has deteriorated into hostility and injustice rather than mutual kindness.
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