It is true examples of disinterested benevolence and individual sacrifices are numerous, particularly in the Southern States; but no systematic, vigorous, and successful measures have been made to overthrow this fabric of oppression.
Grimké critiques the lack of organized efforts to dismantle the system of slavery despite instances of individual benevolence.
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On every hand over against his paper rights as a citizen, the Negro faces facts which make his citizenship seem like a snare and a delusion.
I cannot conceive why a black man may not as reasonably object to my color, as I to his.
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