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Nothing else can possibly come of it in the future than has come of it in the past but evil to the South, arrested development and a backward civilization.
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Archibald Henry Grimké
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gutenberg.orgArchibald Henry Grimké: “Nothing else can possibly come of it in the future than has come of it in the past but evil to the South, arrested…”
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Grimké warns that the continuation of racial injustice will lead to negative consequences for Southern society as a whole.
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But to do this, to realize on their party promises and pledges to the people, they must have votes, not mere good will which can not translate itself into effective support on election day.
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.
It reaches down to the springs of fundamental social and political changes at the South in relation to its race question, and sets in motion the healing waters of its pool of Bethesda, which will in time heal it of its sickness and cleanse…
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.