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What he is entitled to does not anywhere in the South and in some states of the North square itself with what he actually enjoys.
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Archibald Henry Grimké
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gutenberg.orgArchibald Henry Grimké: “What he is entitled to does not anywhere in the South and in some states of the North square itself with what he…”
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He points out the inconsistency between what African Americans are entitled to and what they actually experience, particularly in the South.
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Not at all, for they are most important, but without the ballot they are impotent to give the relief so much needed in the South.
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.
And politics is business, is the big business is it not, or ought it not to be the big business of all self governing peoples, who would maintain justice and freedom for themselves and transmit them unimpaired to their posterity?
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.