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In these circumstances the blacks were the helpless victims of the misrule of their own leaders and of the organized lawlessness of the Southern whites.
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Archibald Henry Grimké
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gutenberg.orgArchibald Henry Grimké: “In these circumstances the blacks were the helpless victims of the misrule of their own leaders and of the organized…”
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Grimké points out that African Americans were victims of both their own leaders' misrule and the lawlessness of Southern whites.
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Whenever there is a contest between the oppressed and the oppressor, the weapons being equal between the parties, God knows that my heart must be with the oppressed, and always against the oppressor.
At any rate they should hear what was resting upon his soul with the weight of a great woe, the force of a supreme command.
To such an unconquerable will, to such an invincible faith obstacles vanish; the impossible becomes the attainable.
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.