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He came back proud that he was an American, prouder still that he was a man.
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Archibald Henry Grimké
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gutenberg.orgHe came back proud that he was an American, prouder still that he was a man.
Grimké expresses pride in both American identity and humanity itself.
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I would not take the word of a Southern Court on this point.
I cannot conceive why a black man may not as reasonably object to my color, as I to his.
I have always supposed that its spirit was directly opposed to everything in the shape of fraud and oppression.
Then you had better let all your irons burn than neglect your duty to the slave.